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...where the nine meet to choose cases and deliberate opinions—and how the law clerks contribute to the court’s operations. He said that all the appeals petitions that the court receives are read by one of the justices’ clerks. The clerks then write up a memo summarizing each case, which in turn is read by the justices. If four justices wish to hear a case, an hour of oral arguments is scheduled. “The purpose for that hour is for us to ask questions,” Breyer explained. Breyer also...
Derrick L. Wang ’06 didn’t end up writing the music for the 2003 Hasty Pudding Theatricals show, “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife.” The morning before he had to submit his original score, the then-freshman was frantically composing in a midtown Manhattan McDonald’s, still recovering from a long night on the town. The Pudding’s music director had given him the lyrics only a week earlier, but Wang had not let the deadline spoil his weekend plans...
...decided to write the book when I ended up single at 62,” Fonda says in a personal interview with The Crimson before addressing a large audience on April 21, at First Parish Church in Cambridge...
Fonda says she was motivated by a need for emotional catharsis and serious self-analysis to write “My Life So Far,” a fearlessly open account of her captivating past. While researching, she noticed the “clear, broad, even universal themes” that ran through her life, and realized that in telling her jam-packed story honestly, she could help women—and men—handle the challenges surrounding “relationships, self-image, and forgiveness...
When a speaker is made to repeat a characteristic malapropism one too many times, what usually seems like an intelligent technique for defamiliarizing us from our own speech starts to feel a bit too much like pointless and supercilious cruelty. It is one thing to have a character write “ourselfs” instead of “ourselves,” but it is a bit much to have him say of his friend’s daughter, “which that incident was, Baby Amber died...