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Mark Greenberg, a third year law student and a member of the Harvard Law Guild, said yesterday there will be some kind of demonstration against the Burger court the night before the competition, which is scheduled for November...
...kind of street along which you promenade, admiring discreetly price-tag-less clothes, jewelry and paintings. On one side is the oldest non-profit craft cooperative in the USA, on the other the oldest guild of artists. All these places proclaim their uniqueness with the fervor of the faithful in possession of a fragment of the True Cross. And if this were Paris the artists would litter the sidewalks chronicling the scene...
...more and more clear as Turow goes through the year that he will end up a corporate lawyer, in one of those big firms that handle the accounts of the largest, least lovable companies. Turow's first-year class was polled by the Harvard chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, with astonishing results: a large segment of the first-year class did not want to end up practising corporate law, but expected it would end up doing just that after graduating from Harvard. He writes, "For those students, the money, the power, the training, the quality of practice all make...
...dirty word, regarded as a code term for subversion. The euphemism to be used is "movement." Two years ago, a leading Afrikaans writer, Leon Rousseau, was savaged by fellow Afrikaners when he called for "penance" and a "national admission of guilt." Yet this spring the Afrikaner Writers Guild adopted a resolution declaring itself against "a dispensation in which the majority of our population is denied humanitarian and basic rights." In a new interracial group called Women for Peace, Afrikaners have started a continuing dialogue with blacks, discussing their problems and busing in children from the black townships to play with...
Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...