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Most, if not all, professors teach according to the case method. Students learn an area of law by reading hundreds of court decisions describing specific disputes. Each case adds a layer to the evolution of the doctrinal framework...
Professors highlight important aspects of the cases in class either through the Socratic Method or through the panel system. Under the Socratic Method, a professor calls on a student to state the background facts of the dispute and expound upon the legal reasoning and significance of the case. (Professors can be harsh and unyielding when utilizing the Socratic Method--see The Paper Chase--but most current Harvard Law professors are more easy-going and sympathetic...
...devise stock options that are indexed to the market or some peer group. They would remain worthless unless the stock outperforms its competitors. Some have suggested the CEOs be required to buy stock above the market price, but that incentive could hurt workers, since a time-honored method of making the stock price jump is to slash jobs. But something has to give, and the CEOs know it. Shareholders will continue to reward extraordinary performance, but being at the helm in a favorable tide doesn't qualify...
...front lurked dissatisfactions and secrets that eventually unraveled the whole idyllic package. And on April 11, Dorris, 52, was found dead in a Concord, New Hampshire, motel room. He had swallowed a lethal combination of pills and vodka and had tied a plastic bag over his head--a suicide method reminiscent of that used by the Heaven's Gate cultists weeks before. "To whomever finds me, sorry for the inconvenience," his suicide note read in part. "I was desperate. I love my family and my friends and will be peaceful at last...
...method was simple. The Crimson's swimmers were quite a bit faster than the Red Raiders', and Harvard's perimeter defense forced Colgate to make sloppy turnovers whenever it had the ball...