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Harvard Law stops free-tuition public law program

Dec. 2, 2009
Harvard University's law school has announced it will stop offering a year of free tuition to students who opt to go into public service law after graduation. Dean Martha Minow said in an e-mail this week to students and faculty that the school will suspend...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch