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...University expansion across the river in Allston need to shut up. They constantly complain about their impending relocation to new subsidized facilities in a housing market they frankly cannot afford. The tenants don’t own the property and have no standing to whine about walking an extra block to the bus. Or anything really.7. Tactless law professors. Closely following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz decided to pen a vicious piece calling the late Justice a “Republican thug” and accusing him of participating in bigoted...
eLottery: This Internet gambling firm hired Abramoff and invested some $2 million in an intricate campaign in 2000 to kill a bill that would have outlawed most online gambling. Abramoff used Christian groups to block the bill on the grounds that it didn't go far enough...
Mariana Islands: Abramoff's first major client paid him $9 million in fees. He helped block legislation, opposed by the U.S. protectorate's textile industry, that would have imposed a minimum-wage law. The Marianas were the venue of many junkets for lawmakers...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...
...Crimson’s 91-76 loss to archrival Dartmouth at Laivetes Pavilion on Saturday was an educational one for an inexperienced Harvard squad. For about 25 minutes, the Big Green decimated a Crimson zone defense that left gaping holes on the perimeter and rotated poorly on the low block. But for the final 15 minutes, Harvard (4-10, 0-1 Ivy) switched to an aggressive man-to-man defense that forced Dartmouth (8-3, 1-0 Ivy) away from the three-point line and kept the Big Green off of the offensive glass...