Interesting article on Harvard Law School

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<p>I love true diversity.
<a href=“http://www.observer.com/politics_newsstory3.asp[/url]”>http://www.observer.com/politics_newsstory3.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It is a fairly long article, but I didn’t have time to quote a snippet when I first came across it. Here’s one…I find this sort of thing really encouraging.

When the Harvard Law chapter of the Federalist Society hosted the organization’s annual student symposium in February, hundreds of law students, academics and lawyers filled the chandeliered Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., to hear a talk by Judge David Sentelle, a conservative member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Dean Kagan introduced the judge.</p>

<p>“I love the Federalist Society,” she announced, “but you are not my people.”</p>

<p>The crowd laughed. It came as no surprise that Ms. Kagan wouldn’t feel kinship with the Feddies. (Moreover, Judge Sentelle headed the panel that appointed Ken Starr as independent counsel.)</p>

<p>And yet there she was, supporting the society. It was a powerful symbolic gesture, one that conservative students still cite when they gush about the dean.</p>

<p>“I just thought it would be funny to a little bit note what everybody knew, which is that”—and here Ms. Kagan allowed herself a chortle— “this was not the student group I was involved in. But at the same time, to express my appreciation for what they do— for what they do in the law-school community and otherwise. These are highly committed, intelligent, hard-working, active students who make the Harvard community better, just like the American Constitution Society makes the Harvard community better. I don’t have to share your politics to understand that Harvard Law School is a better place because you do the things you do here.”

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