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...Next Dubai" Saakashvili, 41, is the son of intellectuals, his father a doctor, his mother a professor. In 1993 he got his first prolonged taste of the U.S. when he won a fellowship to study law at Columbia. He lived in New York City and Washington for several years, passed the New York bar exam and worked in private practice before being summoned back to Georgia to be part of a movement of young reformers, many of whom had been living in the West, that would transform what had been until 1991 a republic of the Soviet Union...
Paschal plans to practice business litigation next fall once she joins the firm that hired her. In the meantime, she will put her legal education to use for South Floridians like her family thanks to a $10,000 foreclosure-defense fellowship she received from the UM law school. The innovative new grant program has sent out eight recent grads this month to help local residents navigate one of the law's most labyrinthine arenas. (See pictures of Cleveland's struggle with the housing crisis...
Still, law schools like Miami's may be one of the best untapped sources. Other programs, like Yale Law School's ROOF Project, also send students into local communities to aid foreclosure cases, but UM's is one of the first to create a paid fellowship. It also makes sense, says Paschal, since so many law firms today are trimming costs by delaying the start date for new hires by a year or more. That gives law grads time to pursue this kind of work - whose complexity, Paschal adds, is ideal for cutting young legal teeth. Says Froomkin...
...when Milk brought together thousands of young gays in pre-AIDS San Francisco to change that city's politics. Milk was famous for convening human billboards - long stretches of young gay guys holding signs along busy streets. Coming together in Washington, Jones thought, might spark the same kind of fellowship. Young friends convinced him that Facebook could shorten the organizing time for a national march dramatically. The site played another role: young gays who had connected on Facebook even as uncertain high school students now wanted to meet face-to-face. The march would provide a way to do that...
...agreement commits both parties to “do their best efforts” to send and receive at least 50 participants per year. In academic year 2008-2009, there were 27 Chilean passport holders enrolled at Harvard who required a visa to enter the U.S. Absent this new fellowship program, Harvard expected 25-30 Chileans to be enrolled. In effect, the agreement calls for doubling the number of Chileans at Harvard. Of the 27 Chileans at Harvard as of last full count, 14 were in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which is also the likeliest future beneficiary...