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The Seething, Surging Rage Against OWS

It's often said that Occupy Wall Street will have accomplished a lot even if its encampments are dispersed by winter cold and cops. That's true, if they stay peaceful, buoyant, drug-and-alcohol free -- even leaderless and indecisive.

More decisive organizations must and will grow, but, as the American cultural historian Nicolaus Mills explains on CNN's website, the democratic flexibility of OWS is one of its best strengths. It has impressed a very important point on many OWS watchers as indelibly as the early civil-rights marches did on others in 1950s: that assumptions and arrangements that seemed immutable will have to change.

But if the times, they are a'changin, bitter resistance to change is surging, too, as it did against civil-rights marchers, and it could damage both sides. I sounded these undercurrents on the London-based openDemocracy.net, one of the most prescient, thoughtful, accessible sites of democracy itself. The Huffington Post has picked up the soundings. TPM is conducting its own and finding that part of the resistance to change begins in the ratings-hungry press itself.

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Lawctopus » Internship Experience Under An Activist, Magazine ...

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Duration of the internship: 4 weeks, 6 days a week, 10.30 am to 4 pm

How did you get the internship?:  To start with it was all about my luck that I happened to meet the person with whom I interned with, Mr. Narayanan. I was desperately searching for an internship during my summer vacation and wasn’t sure where I’ll land up.

So my dad got a contact somehow and asked me to meet a lawyer in Madras High Court to ask him for my internship.

There I was supposed to wait for him in the court hall where the Public Interest Litigation cases were entertained. There I saw a wonderful thing happening, a person without any lawyer’s attire arguing in front of the judges, which was the first time for me to witness in my life.

My interests being kindled I chased him once he walked out the court hall. It was not so easy for me to grab his attention for he was surrounded by journalists....

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Law Professor Denied Tenure for Calling on Students & Making ...

by Peter

The inmates are indeed running the asylum.

Law schools have been under attack lately by students who believe that a law degree entitles them to a six figure salary upon graduation, but now we know the real reason why today’s law brats can’t find employment.

Paul Caron writes in Prof Denied Tenure for Using Socratic Method : 

Some students didn’t take well to Steven Maranville’s teaching style at  Utah Valley University. They complained that in the professor’s  “capstone” business course, he asked them questions in class even when they didn’t raise their hands. They also didn’t like it when he made them work in teams.