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...Microsoft case, calls Boies' ability to improvise in the courtroom "pure jazz." During that trial, when a frustrated Microsoft witness complained that Boies was ambushing him with trick questions, Boies actually promised to raise his hand before he asked another one. And there you see it in the trial transcript, five questions later, following a seemingly innocuous query: "[Counsel raises hand.]" And just 10 lines after that, the bleeding witness is retracting the substance of his sworn deposition. This is more than jazz; this is theater with scenery, lights and full orchestra...
...Harvard applicants. The Office of Career Services (OCS) whittles down the candidate pool annually from 80-100 students to 30-40. Applications are reviewed by one committee composed of Faculty members and another drawn from fellowship tutors from each House. These committees look at a student's academic transcript, 1,000-word personal statement and one-page activities list, but do not examine the eight letters of recommendation that the official Rhodes selection committee requires. Since 1991-1992, when OCS decided to severely restrict endorsements, many have regarded OCS selection procedures as at best mysterious, and at worst, unfair...
...stands, the OCS endorsement committee passes judgement on the basis of a substantially limited evaluation of candidates that explicitly excludes their most telling credentials: the eight letters of recommendation Rhodes committees request. By reviewing only a candidate's transcript, 1000-word personal statement and one-page activities list (one page shorter than in the official application), the selection committee forms its opinion on a gravely impoverished set of information. Not only does this deny a full accounting of candidates' extra-curricular and academic accomplishments, thereby discounting any attribute not captured in a letter grade or activity listing, but it also...
...have given up if he'd "had one [lawyer] like Boies." A few days before Thanksgiving 14 years ago, Boies was drafted to handle Texaco's appeal of a $10.6 billion judgment for interfering in Pennzoil's acquisition of Getty Oil. He devoured 30,000 pages of trial transcript between visits to the bedside of his mother, who was dying of brain cancer...
...fact that we need to pay $3 per transcript when we pay $30,000 per year to go here...