[STARWISE]

2007 NY Times article .. whole article may provide more info to those interested.

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In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice

Expert:

Interactive Picture - mouse around the peeps to see where they are now.

Editors' Note Appended (at bottom of article)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 23 — *snip*

an impressive student, a nice guy. But in the 1990 Revue — the graduating editors’ gleeful parody of their elite publication — they said quite a bit more.

*snip*

He arrived there as an unknown, Afro-wearing community organizer who had spent years searching for his identity; by the time he left, he had his first national news media exposure, a book contract and a shot of confidence from running the most powerful legal journal in the country.

As the ribbing in the Revue suggests, Mr. Obama was realizing the power of his own biography. He proved deft at navigating an institution scorched with ideological battles, many of which revolved around race. *snip*

sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.

*snip*

Friends say he did not want anyone to assume they knew his mind — and because of that, even those close to him did not always know exactly where he stood.

Barack Obama at his fellow student Bradford Berenson’s apartment, where he watched the 1990 election returns.

((He's wearing what looks like a wedding ring. He and Michelle married in 1992.))

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1990-1991 Harvard Law Review Board of Editors

[penelopesire]

Very interesting snippets you picked out. A real manchurian candidate. Sent from god knows where...(eye roll)

[LucyT]

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[April Lexington]

So... like, why is Obama smack dab in the very center of this photo? I think this was photoshopped. Does anyone else have a copy of this thing??? And, do ANY of these students remember anything about this guy?

[April Lexington]

I still think the group picture was photoshopped because the shadows on the faces around him are different.

[STARWISE]

Typo #8056:

Expert = EXCERPT

(long day)

[Fred Nerks]

Now try to find that group graduation image here:

http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepLinkResults?kw2=paul%20freund&kw1=harvard%20law%20school%20class&bool1=not&index2=Name&index1=Title&sort1=@sortDate

Meanwhile, Daniel Meltzer, Harvard Law Professor...

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2009/01/meltzer.html

Daniel J. Meltzer ’75, the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will be appointed Principal Deputy Counsel to the President in the administration of President Barack Obama

...Meltzer is the author of numerous scholarly writings and law review articles, including a major one published with HLS Professor Richard Fallon last year on the constitutional rights of detainees in the battle against terror (Fallon, Richard H. & Daniel J. Meltzer. “Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction, Substantive Rights and the War on Terror,” 120 Harvard Law Review 2029 (2007). Along with Fallon and HLS Professor David Shapiro, he has been co-editor of the leading casebook on federal courts, Hart & Wechsler’s “The Federal Courts and The Federal System” (Foundation Press 5th ed. 2003).

After graduating from Harvard College in 1972, Meltzer attended Harvard Law School, where he became President of the Harvard Law Review...