[j.havenfarm]

A long history of this. In February of 1990 I was temporarily without a car and took the bus to work. I was always a newspaper scanner, but at that time read it from cover to cover, as the trip took two hours. I distinctly remember reading an article how this Kenyan was just appointed as first head of the Harvard Law Review. Of course now we know that he was academically distinguished that the appointment is unsurprising. He gloriously went on the become the first President of the Harvard Law Review not to publish and articlenduring his tenure

[Verginius Rufus]

Obama was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. Of course there had been many others before him who were not black--but they decided that they had to have a black President and apparently he was the best qualified among the pool of black law students at Harvard at the time. Before that it had always gone to the most distinguished law student.