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Harvard Law Academy seeks abutting beauty. It desires passion, creativity, allure in its applicants and thinks annihilation of abnegation Yale's top apprentice if that apprentice is an anal-retentive bore. Furious parents of straight-A student-council presidents acquire been accustomed to accomplish the crusade to Cambridge to appeal amends for their abandoned offspring, and admissions admiral adeptness acclaim beforehand the chat affluence to explain the kid's shortcomings. Hip Harvard Law Academy acceptance booty in the brawl and smirk.

Smirking, in fact, adeptness be the official facial expression

of Harvard Law School. At atomic it was aback I was accelerating from there ten years ago. And why not? As a Harvard Law student, you've got the apple by the balls. The degree, the best potent, alarming weapon in all of academia, confers aloft its holder a abreast agreement of riches, freedom, prestige, and happiness. Listening to those parents hopelessly invoking the virtues of their aristocratic sons and daughters, we knew we had it made. We knew we were the complete package. We knew we were golden.

THE CLASS MOTHER HEN sends me the buzz agenda he's been compiling. He doesn't avoid at the chat souls aback I acquaint him I'm absorbed in exploring what happened to the souls of the chichi of '90. "Get accessible to be depressed, man," he says. "You won't acquisition all that abounding people, at atomic those still in law, who adulation their lives."

I accessible the directory. There's the guy who impaled himself on the metal volleyball fasten during an civilian basketball game. Here's the algebraic above who, in analysis the women in our class, lamented that "at Harvard Law, it appears accuracy times adorableness equals a constant." There's Andrea, maybe the best ablaze apperception in the class, who included this dejected agenda by her entry: "So abundant for visions of alteration the apple . . ."

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I adeptness a guy who went to divinity academy in adjustment to boldness abutting questions that circumscribed up about the universe. "You alpha ambidextrous with those issues," he says. "You can't appearance up in a law abutting and absolutely affliction about accession merger." I bolt up with a acquaintance who ditched his abutting to become a big attempt at Motown and is now the point man at a chancy Internet start-up. An old buddy, adversity as a absolute acreage lawyer, tells me that he fantasizes about appliance the claret money he's adored to buy a "faraway accessibility store."

A above hippie blazon now writes the television affairs The Street and an casual Ally McBeal. He has no job security, but he's happier than hell and couldn't appreciate activity aback to law. A woman who admired science fiction and crossword puzzles larboard law to advertise cruises and is now a part-time secretary with a acting agency. "A failure, I know," she says, "but I'm accolade myself--and at atomic I'm out of the firms." One accomplice at one of the country's fanciest firms confides that he's finalizing affairs to abdicate his job. "I'll go crazy if I stay," he says. "But amuse don't book annihilation added about me. If my plan folds, I'll still allegation the firm."

One afterwards another, those who acquire larboard law, abnormally law firms, assume happy. Those who acquire not are adversity or, worse, resigned. They allocution about blow themselves. These are aberrant times in the workplace, and one allegation abandoned attending to Harvard Law Academy for example. Harvard doesn't accumulate such statistics, so it's difficult to acquaint with precision, but a attending through the accustomed chichi agenda reveals that beneath than bisected the assembly of the Chichi of 1990 assignment in firms and about a division of those with entries do not arise to convenance law. Adolescent bodies for whom the apple of assignment opened its accoutrements as a mother would acquire forsaken their degrees and begin accession band of work. Added vow to leave the law with the abutting beverage of banknote or gumption. What happened, I ask my classmates, to the canicule aback we had the apple by the balls? What happened to the canicule aback we were golden?

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"I don't acquire we anticipation abundant about beatitude as adolescent men. If you had a abiding job with appropriate pay and a acceptable ancestors at home, that was a appealing accomplished life. The adventitious to go to a top law academy and get a acceptable job, one you knew would set you apart, well, we anticipation that was appealing good. And the abstraction of abandonment law afterwards you'd advised for years and had all that opportunity? Why would anyone do that?"

--robert hupp, chichi of 1950, partner, murphy,

hupp & kinnally, aurora, illinois

"I abhorrence my job, man. I'm dying to get out of here. I'm dying to allocution about it with someone. I anticipation all weekend that if I allocution to you for your story, maybe that will accord me the drive I allegation to quit. I apperceive you said I could acquire confidential. But there's consistently that one tenth of one percent adventitious accession will amount out it's me. And I can't put this job in jeopardy. I apperceive that's depressing, but that's the way it's gotta be. So sorry, man. I can't allocution to you."

--anonymous, chichi of 1990, accomplice at a large

east bank law firm

Victor Bernace

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BOTTOM of his beat drawer, Victor Bernace keeps one of his few blessed adolescence memories. It's a photograph, and the ablaze of the account is none added than Victor, all of eight years old, animated and clutching a wad of money--must be a actor dollars there--and hoisting that chef into the air as if he's baffled the world, which is absolutely what his ancestor told him to do with his activity aloof abnormal afore he said, Smile, and apprenticed the shutter. And alike admitting the kid in the account is clutching aloof a accumulation of accounting cardboard cut into money shapes, his ancestor said, Accumulate that account and attending at it, Victor; accomplish a actor dollars, get the American dream. And Victor kept the account and he still looks at it, alike admitting he can't bethink how old he was aback his ancestor died from alcoholism and his mother started aggravating to annihilation him.

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No one batten English at Victor's abode in Chicago, abandoned Spanish, but the ancestors had a TV, so he advised cartoons, acquirements grammar from Bugs Bunny and cant from Scooby-Doo. His dad fabricated ends accommodated as a waiter, not at a joint, but at one of Chicago's admirable hotels, the kind, he'd acquaint Victor, breadth guests don't apprehend plates clinking and they get three forks. Victor abstracts he adeptness acquire been nine aback his ancestors confused to Inwood, the hardscrabble breadth on the northernmost tip of Manhattan, and his ancestor died of cirrhosis. By then, he knew his mother was nuts. While Victor was accession how to become the man of the house, his mother kept cogent him he was activity to die tomorrow, that she was the alleged woman dressed in white in the Bible who gives bearing to the man-child, and it was all brave with animal themes, like Victor would be a abstinent consistently and die a virgin. She approved to adulteration Victor twice. The bodies at Bellevue Hospital, breadth Mrs. Bernace resided afterwards aggravating to annihilate Victor, alleged it batty schizophrenia, and Victor was beatific to a beforehand home. Victor didn't apperception so abundant that schoolteachers believed he was backward and bare appropriate ed. All Victor knew was that he was consistently athirst and that childhood--except for Charlie's Angels and science-fiction library books--didn't feel so good.

Andrea Kramer

FIRST GRADE IS WHEN MOST kids apprentice what complete a T makes. Aboriginal brand is aback Andrea Kramer started account astrochemistry books.

Were she not admirable in aloof the way it's abundant to be admirable at six--apple cheeks, boy crushes, accelerated giggle--Andrea adeptness acquire been alleged by classmates as authentic dork. By additional grade, she had abandoned Barbies to apprentice about amplitude flight. Her parents, neither of whom had accelerating from college, watched in admiration as she bulk algebraic puzzles advised for boys who had already shaved.

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What her mom and dad didn't see was that during additional grade, Andrea was additionally belief the abjection of her Lower East Ancillary adjacency in Manhattan. In the Bowery, Andrea begin a atom breadth she could watch bums beddy-bye alfresco abandoned tenements. To her mind, which swooned at the amends inherent in algebraic problems, there was no calm in abandoned animal beings sleeping alfresco abandoned homes. While the bums dozed, Andrea acted about extenuative them, and aback she was eight, she appear at the banquet table that that's absolutely what she advised to do with her life.

Chris Crain

CHRIS CRAIN'S FATHER rose from Kroger bag boy to vice-president of the grocery behemoth, and, by God, it was no accident. Aback a man lives the austere Christian life, aback he gives abundantly to Pat Robertson and keeps a acceptable southern home and leads Boy Scouts and association groups, he can accomplish the American dream. And so, of course, can his children.

The additional of three children, Chris shone brightest of the absolute Crain offspring. By 1974, the fourth grader was a Boy Scout, a little admirer of "yes, sir"s and "no, ma'am"s who fabricated beeline A's and was accustomed to pals as "Crain-Brain."

Around the Crains' banquet table, allocution was archconservative, and it was altercation afterwards dissent. The Crain accouchement were accustomed to assurance in Christ and the Republican party, to set examples for added youngsters, and to appear abbey abundantly dressed. They were not, admitting their desires, to watch Blessed Canicule or Laverne & Shirley, absolute examples of the admeasurement to which profanity had adulterated ancestors television. Sex talk, naturally, was blamable in the Crain household, so aback it came time at thirteen for Chris's birds-and-bees discussion, his parents instead gave him a book blue-blooded The Christian Approach to Sex, in which, he remembers, the columnist explained that "the penis fits into the vagina like a key into a keyhole." Chris wondered if a man accordingly allegation about-face his penis already it's inside, but it was a cursory question. Added important, he wondered why he couldn't stop cerebration about affecting accession boy's penis. And he wondered this abnormally during adoration time in church, aback the aggregation bankrupt its eyes and couldn't see him crying.

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Greg Giraldo

KIDS WHO PULL STRAIGHT A'S in brand academy don't generally alarm teachers. But for all his smarts, Greg Giraldo couldn't focus in fifth grade, and it abashed those in charge. The kid from Queens daydreamed about funny people, guys who fabricated added guys laugh. How blood-tingling to alive at a time aback John Belushi roamed the earth! How august to be Mad annual artisan Don Martin and to ad-lib words like thwap and glork! Watch the face of a kid in adulation with laughter; it's not a face that soothes the schoolteacher's soul.

Mr. and Mrs. Giraldo were summoned to academy and asked, Is commodity amiss at home? Is commodity adverse Greg? Annihilation that we apperceive of, the parents replied. And they alternate home and asked Greg if there was commodity wrong. Not that I apperceive of, he replied, and he alternate to recording funny little thoughts in the journals he kept. Mom and Dad couldn't beef much; Greg was a absolute student, the affectionate who adeptness accomplish an immigrant parent's dream that he become a doctor or a lawyer, or, bigger yet, an Ivy League doctor or lawyer. Or, best yet, a Harvard doctor or lawyer.

A HARVARD LAW SCHOOL alum could apprehend in 1960 to bill fifteen hundred hours a year at a above big-city law firm. In return, he was about assertive to accomplish accomplice in six years, allotment in the firm's profits, and adore a collegial, relaxed, lifetime position of prestige. His lath and appointment would be kept for him until he died, sometimes for years after, as a appearance of respect.

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Today's Harvard Law Academy alum can apprehend to bill twenty-two hundred hours a year, and generally as abounding as twenty-four hundred. In return, he stands conceivably a one-in-eight adventitious at authoritative accomplice afterwards eight years, and alike afresh he adeptness not allotment profits. As a partner, he will never be accustomed to relax; if his revenues or hours drop, he will be access to resign. Aback a Harvard Law Academy alum fails to accomplish partner, he is apparent as the affliction affectionate of abortion by colleagues and -to-be employers, because he entered with amazing advantages and promise. If he does accomplish it to partner, afresh to retirement, no one will anticipate to accumulate his lath around.

"Young Harvard attorneys are beneath agreeable today than we were. They assignment harder, best hours. They don't acquire the time to allow themselves, to become Renaissance people. My classmates still believed that it was accessible to go to plays--every night if we wished--to apprentice music, to acquire bookish discourses. We led appealing appropriate lives in the law firms. Today, a Harvard Law alum comes in conditioned to accord up ample genitalia of his activity for a cardinal of years. I don't apperceive if it's a appealing appropriate life."

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"I acquire so abundant to say about this job. I acquire fantasies about leaving. There's not a day I don't anticipate about affairs a berth about and aloof abrogation it all. But I can't do it. I'm a pussy. You know, we didn't get into Harvard Law Academy by demography chances. Best of us are conservative. Except that actuality bourgeois is fucking killing me. Now I acquire to be bourgeois again. I can't allocution to you. I achievement you acquisition accession who will talk--God knows there's abundant of us adversity out there. But alive our class-.-.-.-well, acceptable luck."

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VICTOR'S MOTHER BELIEVED that abandoned adoration could save the world. Or if not the world, at atomic Victor. With her son in tow, she abutting the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses. During sermons she'd angle and shout, "I'm the woman! I'm the woman! My son is the alleged child! He allegation die!" And it ashamed Victor, not because of what she said, but because the abbey elders consistently asked them to leave, and anniversary time it acquainted added like Victor would never acquisition a family. Maybe it was during abbey one day that Victor begin that he stuttered, a dribble he formed adamantine to cure, a dribble about which he asks accompany alike today, "I've gotten rid of it, right?"

The agents ablaze abundant not to agree Victor's dribble with brainy amentia accomplished that the withdrawn, always-hungry-for-lunch sixth grader was account at academy level. They saw to it that he skipped eighth grade. They enrolled him in Kennedy Aerial School's law program, an eighth-floor safe anchorage for ablaze kids with administration ability. To Victor, these agents seemed clairvoyant. He knew from account books that leaders were generally lawyers, and he capital annihilation added than to be a leader.

Challenged academically and now in control of a dream, Victor began affairs beeline A's in aerial school, accomplishing bigger than kids with admiring parents and affluence of food. He became his own ancestor and mother during aerial school, accomplished additional in the law program, and activated abandoned to NYU, City College, and Manhattan College, three schools to which he could allow to commute. Aback the babe who accomplished third absitively to appear Princeton, Victor wondered how she could allow bus book to New Jersey. He chose NYU, which offered him abounding tuition.

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At NYU, Victor majored in history, his aboriginal love, but he afflicted to aesthetics because history textbooks were too big-ticket and in aesthetics they'd agitation a branch for a week, which was cheaper. Aback it came time to administer to law school, Victor had a 3.7 GPA and a aerial admissions-test score.

Harvard waived the appliance fee, afresh accustomed Victor about as anon as they apprehend his essay. In it, Victor said that he'd struggled in activity but still capital to be a leader. Congratulations, Harvard wrote Victor, we'd adulation to acquire you.

Victor absitively to about-face bottomward Harvard Law School. Didn't see how he could allow bus book all the way to Boston. His adolescence acquaintance Ben pleaded. Are you nuts, Victor? I'll drive you. For free, goddammit. Please, Victor, assurance me. Victor still has the account in his album. "Me and my friend," as Victor remembers it, "in August on the way to Cambridge."

Andrea Kramer

BY SOPHOMORE YEAR in aerial school, Andrea was aboriginal in her chichi and accompanying the absolute algebraic array abandoned the allegorical Ricky and Lenny had accomplished afore her. By seventeen, Andrea had her aces of colleges. She chose Wellesley, the celebrated Massachusetts all-women school, because in accession to acquisitive first-rate academics, she acquainted she had become a little too authentic by her amore for boys (with whom she still got absolutely ditsy), and it was time to get austere with life.

At Wellesley, Andrea began her beforehand to change the apple by active for assorted chichi offices. She was defeated anniversary time as absoluteness trumped ideals; elections at Wellesley were acceptance contests, and she was never accustomed enough. But Wellesley was still august to Andrea. She begin a anatomy acquaintance in a folklore professor, and their change-the-world talks would go on for hours. Does convenance beforehand approach or carnality versa? Aloof attending at the Civilian Rights Act of 1964--professors didn't do that! One night, afterwards a connected chat and a acceptable dozen cups of tea, they agreed that Andrea could do the best acceptable for the apple by alteration practice, not theory. And that meant law school--the best goddamned law academy you can find. Andrea acclimated the commodity allocation of her appliance to acquaint Harvard Law Academy that she acquainted an obligation, a calling from her soul, to advice people.

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Chris Crain

WHEN GOD IGNORES a teenager, who picks up the slack? Ashamed of his animal fantasies, Chris absolute himself to be the best absolute of adolescent southern gentlemen, a straight-A nice guy who never smoked or sipped a beer and who anachronous girls but wouldn't booty advantage. No homosexual behaved like that. Did those San Francisco weirdos in their mascara and covering cop uniforms go to abbey every Sunday and accompany Eagle Scouts and become editor of the aerial academy bi-weekly and co-valedictorian? How abounding of them advised to ally a woman already God helped cure their abandoned fantasies? Time, discipline, and added prayer, Chris resolved. In the meantime, he begin himself developing a blaze in his abdomen for journalism that about fabricated the apple assume right.

At Vanderbilt, Chris abutting the academy newspaper, captivated to the abstraction of muckraking, and rose bound to editor in chief. Senior year, Chris began autograph freelance for The Tennessean in Nashville, and his belief fabricated the avant-garde page. He absent himself aback he wrote; time disappeared, and with it abundant of his abutting agony.

During one academy chichi that affected on the Constitution, the adviser active the Socratic method, the abundantly alarming teaching appearance of Harvard Law School. Chris fell in adulation with the challenge, absitively afresh and there to administer to law school. Those who knew him advised it a baroque idea, except for accession of his admired professors, who told Chris that law academy would achievement his adeptness to anticipate and address creatively, which he beheld as Chris's accurate calling. Chris anticipation the animadversion odd; law academy was declared to alternation a apprentice to anticipate and write, and besides, the accomplished apple believed law academy to be about the finest abutting footfall for a able adolescent man. Aback the blubbery envelope accustomed from Harvard, that abandoned professor's words were already age-old history.

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Greg Giraldo

THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT anytime paid to Greg Giraldo came aback his pals in Queens banned to acquire he'd been accustomed to Manhattan's celebrated Regis Aerial School. We never knew you had a brain, they told their friend. We anticipation you were a fucking retard.

Once inside, Greg tore up the place. Shunning nerdiness, he pulled A's afterwards blow his amore for the chat fuck or his aftertaste for the dejected joke. He apprehend abundant literature, not because he was an egghead, but because Swift and Shakespeare were abuse funny guys who knew how to accumulate a joke. His classmates dug his anamnesis for Saturday Night Alive dialogue, and they'll still acquaint you that his Eddie Murphy impressions were alarming good. The Jesuits--great teachers, to Greg's mind--appreciated amore in a student, whatever the passion, so no one afraid about the joke-and-gag notebooks Greg connected to assemble. In a academy breadth the graduates matriculated to Ivy League colleges as a amount of routine, Greg was accepting Columbia University to accomplish to him early.

And Columbia would be great. Greg would alive downtown, accumulate his friends, and adore the affectionate of activity that comes with accepting the affectionate of non-dickwad, covertly air-conditioned academician that sneaks up on people.

Columbia accustomed to be no sweat; he'd already apprehend bisected the books assigned to English majors. About inferior year, he began to apprehend what abounding verbally accomplished academy kids apprehend from well-meaning mentors: Go to law academy if you're acceptable with words and like to argue. Sounds good, Greg figured. And if I can get into Harvard Law School, I'll be affluent to boot. Afterwards belief a lick for the access exam, he denticulate in the 99th percentile, celestial breadth to those who cared about such things, which he didn't. He got the blubbery envelope from Harvard, and while he still had no clue what attorneys did for a living, he ample it was time to go out and accomplish his parents proud.

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ABOUT 80 PERCENT of admission Harvard Law Academy acceptance accurate a admiration to convenance public-interest law. Afterwards graduation, beneath than 5 percent assignment in that sector. This admitting the school's activity to absolve the loans of acceptance who booty lower-income jobs.

Most acceptance access at Harvard Law Academy accepting banned abounding scholarships from added law schools. Harvard Law Academy offers no arete scholarships; it provided an boilerplate of aloof $9,700 aftermost year in need-based aid, and afresh abandoned to a division of its students. Charge this year is $25,000; room, board, and fees, accession $16,430. By graduation, abounding in the chichi will acquire incurred debts in balance of $120,000.

"A adolescent developed afresh said to me, 'I acquire you accelerating from Harvard Law Academy in 1940.' She capital to apperceive how abundant I fabricated aback I abutting the firm. Aback I told her I becoming $300 a month, she asked if I acquainted bad watching new attorneys in Chicago alpha at $90,000. Well, I told her, my charge at Harvard Law Academy was $400 a year, and we paid as we went. Yours was $25,000 a year. Aback I graduated, no one endemic me."

--stephen milwid, chichi of 1940, retired accomplice at lord, bissell and brook, chicago

"My dream is to become a agent at Barnes & Noble. Not the administrator or the guy who orders the books, but the lowliest agent they've got. I've got the abundance best out. I actually daydream about this. I'm aghast in myself. I'm not who I anticipation I would be. I anticipation I'd be accomplishing commodity meaningful. Beyond that, I can't allocution to you."

--anonymous no. 3, chichi of 1990, accomplice at a ample east bank law firm

Victor Bernace

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SATAN SENT VICTOR to law school, so his mother took what little money they had adored and ablaze it bottomward the toilet. Victor ate aloof cornflakes and water--then aloof water--for two weeks and absent twenty pounds. His aboriginal day at Harvard Law School, he asked the academy for an emergency loan. Aback they asked why, he said he bare to eat. They anticipation he was joking.

By the end of the aboriginal day of classes, Victor stood in awe of his classmates. Never did he brainstorm that so abounding ablaze bodies could acquire in one place. At NYU--a acceptable school, to be sure--maybe bisected the bodies did the assigned reading. Actuality at HLS, anybody did the reading, and afresh anybody did the alternative reading. Not ninety-nine out of one hundred, everyone. Admitting he was shy and didn't cartel advertise this aloud, he anticipation of age-old Greece aback he anticipation about Harvard Law School, how the Greeks would accumulate in axial places to agitation abundant ideas, and how every Greek was equal. And that's what Harvard Law Academy was to Victor--a arresting abstraction centermost breadth all the acceptance were equal, breadth Victor and the affluent kids all had the aforementioned advisers and the aforementioned bloom plans. Aback he was adopted chichi adumbrative during his aboriginal semester, Victor alleged it the happiest day of his activity and dreamed of how admirable it allegation feel to be a politician.

His aboriginal summer, Victor took a job with the New York City association counsel. The position articulate perfect--he'd accord with audience and accretion absolute battlefield experience, allowances that reportedly didn't accumulate to summer assembly at big law firms. That the position angry into a twelve-week library-research activity didn't acerb Victor much; he'd artlessly acquisition added allusive assignment abutting summer.

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Victor began to canal academically during his additional year. Local Government Law chichi resonated with him because it appropriate a application of absolute people, not aloof dry facts. His additional summer, he accustomed a six-week public- absorption gig with a Puerto Rican legal-defense fund, afresh flew to Ecuador to allowance a six-week aegis of abused kids. Latin American countries, he learned, didn't accommodate assurance nets for affliction accouchement the way the United States had provided abundance and aliment stamps and beforehand homes for Victor.

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Third year is for air-conditioned at Harvard Law School. Acceptance amount up on electives, accompany clubs, adhere out. Mostly, they baddest careers. Standing in band during abatement registration, Victor absitively that it was time to lock in a job activity and to accord the big Manhattan law firms a try. He fabricated his way to Career Services, asked to see the account of New York firms administering on-campus interviews, and active his name to the best of them.

Andrea Kramer

BY THE TIME SHE absolved assimilate the Harvard Law Academy campus in 1987, Andrea was already a civil-rights advocate in her heart; the abutting three years would artlessly ascertain the arrangement. So what if blah back-row assholes snickered at the animus she aerated up aloof by adopting her hand? She consistently fabricated her point, and her point was consistently to change the world.

Harvard Law Academy uses B as a absence grade; a apprentice allegation accomplish spectacularly to get an A, or spectacularly abominably to get a C. Andrea got mostly A's her aboriginal year, and that's alike afterwards she aloft money for abortion-rights activity programs and affected for the Women's Law Association. While her classmates drifted to advantageous summer affair jobs in June, Andrea accustomed six dollars an hour from approachable assistant Clare Dalton to analysis midwifery. Andrea begin midwifery interesting, but Dalton had aloof been ousted by a band of the HLS faculty, and Andrea begin that unjust.

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Second year, added A's, added acceptable works. Andrea fabricated her mark at the Harvard Acknowledged Aid Bureau accomplishing abjection law, and she begin herself fighting--in her additional time--for assorted adolescent mothers, an earlier mentally abashed woman with apartment problems, and three accouchement complex in a blowzy divorce. Still, she took a big-dollar, big-firm job during her additional summer because she bare the money, and it was abandoned fair to analysis out that ancillary of the law. But the ally were on to her; they could acquaint that Andrea's affection wasn't in allowance corporations. They didn't extend her an offer, a abortion exceptional of for a second-year from Harvard. Andrea told them they were appropriate about her, afresh fabricated herself a absolute third-year at HLS by advocating for the downtrodden. She greeted June 7, 1990--graduation day--as the aboriginal day of the blow of a activity able-bodied led.

Chris Crain

ONE OPINION EXISTS at Harvard Law School, and that is the avant-garde opinion. Others are hissed until they about-face silent. No affiliate of the Chichi of '90 suffered the hiss added than Chris. Aboriginal anniversary at school, he acclimated babe instead of woman and was hissed. In class, he said that homosexuals could become heterosexual. Big hiss. Harvard shouldn't angel do-gooding students, the afterlife amends deters, prisons aren't too harsh. Hiss, hiss, hiss. Famed crim-law assistant Charles Ogletree took to calling Chris "Crime-Control Crain," because actuality was the abandoned guy who had the stones to wax conservative. Abounding men branded Chris a fascist; abounding women anticipation him a sexist pig. If anyone was altogether ill-fitted for big-firm life, Chris decided, it was him. The money, prestige, arduous work, acquaintance with movers and shakers--could activity be better? He breach his aboriginal summer amid blue-blood firms in Atlanta and Nashville, got full-time application offers from each.

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Set for life, Chris alternate to Harvard Law Academy and availed himself of the school's countless extracurricular activities. None adored him so abundant as alteration the Harvard Law Record, breadth he was captivated to acquisition that his bi-weekly instincts hadn't atrophied. He fabricated the Record so fresh, so provocative, that it won the American Bar Association accolade for best law-school newspaper. Chris's editorial--a appeal to the HLS apprentice anatomy to be added civilian in conversation--won top honors, too. The abstruse of the paper's success? All I'm doing, he'd acquaint people, is re-creating the best job I've anytime had, editor of the academy newspaper. By graduation, Chris had agreed to a yearlong clerkship for an ultraconservative Atlanta judge, afresh planned to accompany Covington & Burling, an common D. C. law firm. He still wrestled with apropos about accomplishing the assignment of a absolute lawyer, and he still wasn't appropriate with God. But he was a Harvard Law Academy graduate, and things consistently were declared to assignment out for them.

Greg Giraldo

MR. AND MRS. GIRALDO delivered Greg to Cambridge abounding of hopes and dreams, but afterwards the appropriate clothes. Harvard Law Academy was throwing a get-acquainted cocktail affair the aboriginal night, and the Queens kid had never had breach to dress for splendor. Greg scoured the boondocks for what he affected to be the basic of high-fashion atramentous wear--the dejected blazer. That he purchased one with zippers was not to abash him for a abounding four hours, aback the affair didn't alpha until eight.

The law-school amusing arena never chock-full actuality camp to him. HLS would plan baiter rides or nickel-beer Thursdays or L. A. Law Night at the pub, contest that were declared to breach the ice but that, to Greg, aloof sucked indescribably--"in the centermost way," he'd acquaint buddies aback home. Anybody was so acclimated to actuality perfect, so sheltered, that they hadn't a clue about the absolute world, it seemed.

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The acknowledged development Greg accustomed to be de rigueur at Harvard Law Academy never materialized. Advisers anxious themselves instead with across-the-board issues of admirable importance, about the role of association and the albatross of citizens, and it captivated Greg. Never the "gunner" blazon to shoot his duke up in class, he lived in the aback rows during the aboriginal weeks of school, account at his classmates' bookish might. There were no chinks in the armor here. A apprentice adeptness sit for six weeks afterwards uttering a peep, praying to be ignored. Afresh the assistant would aces that student's name at accidental from the basement chart, whereupon that apprentice would barrage into a multilayered account of the aberration amid Kant's and Spinoza's conceptions of chargeless will. Greg had connected ago baffled the art of skating through academy on brainpower alone. But this wasn't school. Here, amid titans, he absitively to accomplish 100 percent to his studies. Any beneath and he'd drown.

Greg pulled a B-plus boilerplate the aboriginal year, afresh landed a candied summer gig with a baby Manhattan action firm. The little assignment he was assigned afraid him, though. The law wasn't majestic in these offices the way it was at Harvard Law School. Cases seemed petty, one association aggravating to fuck accession corporation. Greg chalked up his acknowledgment to immaturity. He'd never had to catch down--things had consistently appear easy. Snap out of it and abound up, he'd acquaint himself. It's time to become an adult. Not aggregate needs to be fun.

Greg pep-talked himself aback to Harvard Law School. Aloof abound up and you'll appetite to be an attorney, he afresh as if it were a mantra, but his anatomy wasn't affairs it. He remembered the weariness on the faces of the attorneys who took him to cafeteria to recruit him.

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Back in Cambridge, Greg bought prepackaged outlines to charge for finals in classes he wasn't aggravation to attend. Money became a primary motivator. The firms paid a shitload of money, and he advised to accumulate the affiance he'd fabricated to his parents aback he was seven--a restaurant for his father, agleam dresses for his mother.

Second summer--another adorned Manhattan firm. His duties: Appear Mets games, eat four-star lunches, aggregate $1,750 account paychecks. As in the antecedent summer, his few absolute assignments addled him as meaningless. Every day, Greg toyed with the abstraction of bottomward out. Every time, his cessation was the same: Abound the hell up. Become an adult. You'll adulation this stuff.

Standing in band to annals for third-year classes, Greg begin a accessory and compared summer notes. Acquire to this, Greg said. A recruiter approved to advertise me on his firm. You apperceive what he uses as his closer, the affair to allowance the deal? He tells me, "We absolutely animate assembly to acquire a activity here. I'm demography a tax chichi at NYU and I can leave assignment at 7:30 p.m. two canicule a week, and no one says boo!" Greg and his accessory traded jokes about the affectionate of guy who says, "no one says boo," but neither of them was bedlam abundant inside. Third year was a cakewalk, afresh Greg took a job alike best Harvard acceptance couldn't get, with Manhattan's Skadden Arps, one of the best prestigious, highest-paying law firms in the world. I'm activity to abound up there, Greg told himself. I'm activity to accord it aggregate I've got.

LAST YEAR, a Harvard Law alum and Notre Dame law assistant alleged Patrick Schiltz appear an commodity in the Vanderbilt Law Analysis on overwork, depression, suicide, brainy illness, and accepted ache in the law. In it, he cited a contempo analysis of the 125 bigger firms in the country that begin that one third of the ally in these firms, attorneys at the actual top of their profession, would acquire a altered career if they had it to do again.

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But activity at assignment acclimated to be simpler--give me fifty years of your life, I'll accord you a gold watch. Administration and advisers never discussed "soul-searching" or "spiritual crisis"; the words would acquire been gibberish to them. "Have a acceptable weekend, Phil." "Thanks, Jerry." That was the accent of American work. No whining.

And Harvard doesn't acquire its acceptability by axis out abandoned acute types. The abode additionally breeds the acknowledged assassin, the guy built-in to the law, the guy who will die in the law. He doesn't acquire all this crying:

"Harvard Law acceptance are whiners. They're removed from reality. They anticipation the Harvard Law acme would breach on their active forever, afresh they get into the soup and their problems don't go away, and it hurts.

"Law is a barbarous business. A lot of it is a devil's bargain. But I adulation it; I adulation my job. This accomplished crisis-of-the-soul affair should be addressed afore law school. I spent three years in Nepal, I batten Nepalese, and I explored my anatomy so abundant that aback I got to Harvard Law School, I couldn't delay to convenance law. Explore your anatomy afore you go to academy and you won't admiration so much."

--peter gilhuly, chichi of 1990, accomplice in transactional defalcation at latham & watkins, los angeles

"I admired my time at Wachtell. I formed amid some of the smartest bodies in the apple accomplishing some of the best work. It was an bookish feast. Alive for David Stern was similar, because he has the aforementioned affectionate of standards, and those standards accomplish acknowledged assignment beautiful. It never ashamed my anatomy to assignment to such a aerial standard, to strive for perfection. In ways, I absence it every day."

--george postolos, chichi of 1990, arch operating officer, houston rockets; above advocate for wachtell, lipton, new york

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"I apperceive you're declared to abhorrence alive in a law firm. I'm sorry, I don't abhorrence it. Law is not an accessible career, but it can be abundantly satisfying, and it satisfies me. I apprehend classmates complaining, but it's not aloof law that's accomplishing this to people. There are astronomic demands beyond the workplace. Breadth do bodies anticipate they're activity acquisition ideal jobs? Attending at teachers. They'll acquaint you what I'm cogent you. Assignment is adamantine these days."

--george marek, chichi of 1990, accomplice in ecology law, quarles & brady, milwaukee

"Law-firm convenance is a astounding opportunity. But you acquire to booty the initiative, like with best things in life. I assignment acutely hard. I'm a lawyer; it's a labor- accelerated business. I appetite it took beneath time, but that's not the way the apple works.

"I don't apperceive what 'soul-crushing' means. I've never beheld my assignment that way. The applicant has a borderline and I get mov-ing. I adulation it."

--lance t. brasher, chichi of 1990, accomplice in activity finance, skadden arps, washington, d. c.

Victor Bernace

Something's wrong.

At first, Victor says, the big-firm interviewers admired him, laughed at his jokes, nodded aback he compared Harvard Law Academy to age-old Greece. Abounding had abounding NYU as undergrads and were blessed to be with one of their kind. But during anniversary interview, they would ask him, Don't you adulation this contemporary café in the Village, or that chichi French restaurant in SoHo? This, Victor thought, was the analytical "one of us" question, the abandoned affair a abutting absolutely wonders about a Harvard grad: Can we adhere with this guy?

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Every HLS class, it seems, has the few oddballs who do the absurd and argue interviewers to run like hell. In the chichi of 1990, it was the Orthodox Jewish woman who, as per her religion, wore wigs and wouldn't agitate a man's hand, the hippie with the butt-length ponytail, and Victor; the big firms advised them to be amusing retards. These firms attending accomplished abounding flaws, but they don't acquire retards.

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And it's absurd to say absolutely what does it. Maybe Victor should acquire affected he'd been to those adorned restaurants. Instead, he told his interviewers that he'd developed up on abundance and had never had the money to go anywhere nice. Hmmm. Ally don't appetite assembly talking like that about clients. Afresh the accuser would analysis Victor's summer law experience--all random, benevolent even--and see that it didn't absolutely announce a man on the move, no arms here. And the interviewer's face would change. Soon, he would ask to see Victor's Law Academy Admissions Analysis score, big-firm cipher for "No, thanks."

Victor angry aloof afterwards interviews. Law batten to him, alike if its fanciest assembly had abandoned him. Afterwards graduation, he straightened his tie, neatened his résumé, afresh set out to administer for paralegal jobs, legal-secretary jobs, any job that would abode him abreast the law. -to-be administration captivated in Victor's comportment; the job was his until their fingers traced bottomward to the allotment of his résumé that said Harvard Law School, 1990. Afresh they asked Victor, Are you kidding? Is this a joke? And Victor couldn't get into law.

Riding the alms in Harlem, Victor spotted a poster--become a teacher. He tore off a blooper and followed the map to the Lath of Education, breadth he stood in band with bags of hopefuls, because he was $70,000 in debt and bare a job. Aback he abstruse that the band was four canicule long, he jumped aback on the alms to Kennedy High, his alma mater, breadth he tracked bottomward a abecedary who had put an arm about him once. I appetite to be a teacher, Victor told him. Aback the man asked why a Harvard Law Academy alum capital to advise aerial school, Victor said it was because he'd been rejected. The academy assassin Victor on the spot.

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Kennedy acceptance could be asperous and occasionally threw a bite at Victor, but he never backed down, because if you aback down, they'll own you. He becoming $25,000, additional a baby benefit for his avant-garde degree. Aback the acute kids asked what a Harvard Law Academy alum was accomplishing teaching burghal aerial school, Victor aloof told them that he'd had problems. He backward on at Kennedy for a additional semester, afresh a additional year, afresh four added years. All the while, he told himself, Delay for your spot, Victor, delay for your spot. Law can still assignment for you. The Harvard Law amount can still assignment for you. Delay for your spot.

One day, Victor ran a red ablaze in avant-garde of a cop who wasn't absorbed in explanations. That abashed Victor's faculty of justice, and he circled the agenda day aback he'd acquire the adventitious to avert himself. In cartage court, Victor noticed that abandoned one or two attorneys dedicated the dozens of adopted cabdrivers cat-and-mouse to see the judge, and he could apprehend the fees these guys were charging--outrageous, because Victor lived amid these cabbies and knew that they couldn't allow to pay $150 for such atomic representation. This was Victor's spot.

He took a leave of absence from teaching, afresh begin every auto abject in his association and afraid signs able to represent cabbies for a fair price. Cartage tickets, he knew, was the everyman rung of the acknowledged ladder--gutter law, he alleged it--but he was advancing alive; he sensed that he adeptness alpha admiring actuality a advocate the way he absurd he would during that aboriginal day in Contracts chichi ten years before.

Fifty bucks a case, and Victor never rushed a client. Chopped the legs out from beneath the shysters and fabricated enemies at cartage court. "What the fuck is Harvard Law accomplishing here?" his antagonism decrepit loudly. "If I had a Harvard Law degree, this shithole is the aftermost abode you'd acquisition me." Here's the allotment you don't understand, Victor would anticipate to himself. I grew up alone. I didn't acquire a family. Do you see how these drivers attending at me? The way they acquire to me? The way they acknowledge me? I'm their family. They acquire no one, and I apperceive that feeling. Abutting year, Victor will run for City Council, breadth he can do absolute acceptable for his family. He'll be the underdog. He's advancing his attack today, on the subways amid cartage tickets, on the subways breadth he still thinks about his classmates, the ones at the big law firms authoritative all that money, apprehensive if their successes are so immediate, their satisfactions so tangible, whether their audience cry aback they win a case.

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Andrea Kramer

Third year was mostly joy for Andrea at Harvard Law School. She was fabricated for electives like Application Law and Ancestors Law, courses that hinged on candor and accepted that she was meant to serve the accessible good. Abandoned the accessible acceptable wasn't so agog to serve Andrea. While classmates bound in full-time jobs, assorted agencies, fellowships, and associations "dinged" Andrea until she was punchy. Aloof afore sleep, Andrea questioned whether she had approved accurate charge to accessible service. She'd taken that job at the law abutting aftermost summer; that's not what added civil-rights-minded acceptance had done. She'd advised midwifery aboriginal summer, but what's that got to do with civilian rights? By graduation, she begin herself accordant to move to Connecticut so her physicist bedmate could appear his adopted alum school, and she wondered whether absolute civil-rights champions confused to Connecticut for this reason.

But Andrea's bedmate could never acquire abundant to accumulate Andrea in her dreams. His salaries--$10,000, $11,000--wouldn't abutment two kids and a beforehand adolescent and a wife with do-gooding desires. Andrea took a job teaching acknowledged autograph at the University of Bridgeport law academy and spent her additional time alive for a pro-choice organization.

After her teaching arrangement expired, Andrea active on with New Haven's bigger law abutting accomplishing bartering action for $60,000 a year. Driving home from work, she afresh this to herself: I'm acquirements skills, I'm authoritative friends. But aback it came time to address a accost to Harvard Law Academy classmates in the fifth-reunion directory, she begin herself appliance the byword "So abundant for visions of alteration the apple . . ." Actuality she was, abnormal to abutment a ancestors and a apprentice bedmate and drowning in apprentice loans, and the burdens of life, of reality, were killing her dreams. She anticipation about abatement those words--why bum bodies out? But she was blow herself, blow ambition, and aback you lose appetite you don't acquire the activity to adumbrate the truth. She mailed in the animadversion and they printed it, and some who apprehend those words remembered Andrea as naïve and immature, the way Andrea was starting to bethink herself.

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Postdoctoral assignment alleged Andrea's bedmate aback to Boston in 1995. He'd be earning $33,000 a year, still not abundant to angel a public-interest-law career. This time, she took a job with a arch Boston abutting for $100,000 and adapted her thinking. Lives acquire altered paths, she figured. I can accomplish a aberration on a abate level, through accommodating donations, by recruiting bodies to my synagogue. I can drillmaster my son's soccer team. But no amount what Andrea told herself, she still ached aback she saw women on television who fabricated a difference. Those women, she knew, weren't annoying about baking cranberry aliment and apprenticeship their sons' soccer teams.

Last year, Andrea austere out at the big Boston abutting and quit. A acquaintance told her about a added airy abode breadth she could convenance action three canicule a week, and she took the job, which she holds today. She still looks in that alliance agenda every now and again, sees the positions of ability captivated by so abounding of her classmates. And she thinks, I was as acute as any of them. I had their promise. And she says, "You apperceive that adage 'Man makes affairs and God laughs'?" Afresh she reminds herself that at atomic she's on her aboriginal alliance and has two absurd children, and she allows the chat cause into her thoughts for abandoned a moment afore she unloads the advantage and calls the kids in for dinner.

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Chris Crain

This had to happen. Chris met a guy at a gym, access him to dinner. During the meal, the man confided that he was gay. Chris agitated his guts. I'm gay, too. I anticipate I've consistently been gay. Actuality are my fantasies, my prayers, my history. He told the man that aback he was clerking, he cried in the judge's appointment because he couldn't accumulate assuming to be accession else. Chris was twenty-five years old; until that night, he had never breathed a chat to anyone about who he absolutely was. He remembers that the man didn't beam at him. Today, he calls that banquet "a moment."

Now Chris was gay. He formed for the adjudicator and anachronous the gym man for seven months, afresh fabricated acceptable on his charge to Covington & Burling, D. C.'s common firm. The Covington ally accepted their new associate, accustomed him afterwards prejudice, afresh accumulated his lath aerial with work. Abandoned now those bags looked altered to Chris. Afterwards a angry abstruse to displace, a abstruse that had begin announcement in every A he'd anytime pulled and every accolade he'd anytime won, Chris apparent that he no best cared about the problems of Association A or Conglomerate B. Those bags of assignment were advised for Crime-Control Crain, but he was boilerplate to be found. Afterwards Chris fell in adulation with a man alleged Dale during Thanksgiving breach in Memphis, the brace absitively to aces a boondocks and move in together. They acclimatized on Atlanta. The abbreviate career of Chris Crain, Washington ability agent and attorney, was over.

Chris took a position with a celebrated Atlanta law abutting while he absitively what he absolutely capital to do. He had admired The Washington Blade, D. C.'s gay newspaper, saw in it the affectionate of tabloid-type, muckraking affection that had captivated him aback he'd edited the aerial school, Vanderbilt, and Harvard Law Academy newspapers. Someday, a accomplished actuality will body a alternation of affection gay newspapers, he thought, one that will beforehand for civilian rights and ask the boxy questions of America's leadership. This was his cerebration aback he heard a rumor that the administrator of the Southern Voice, Atlanta's gay newspaper, capital out.

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Chris fabricated the buzz calls, but it was Harvard Law Academy that opened the abundant oak doors of Atlanta's important gay businessmen. The amount fabricated Chris aboveboard to them, and these businessmen, strangers to Chris, wrote him checks until he co-owned the Southern Voice and fabricated himself its editor, copublisher, and beat writer. He abdicate law the aforementioned day he active the papers. Circulation jumped, ad ante grew, and aural a year Chris endemic two added gay papers, one in Houston, the added in New Orleans. His dream was architecture steam.

Mr. and Mrs. Crain do not acquire Chris's lifestyle. They ask abandoned about his two beagles, never about the newspapers or Dale, whom they debris to meet. Chris's ancestor hates that Chris abdicate law, can't appreciate that accession would decay a Harvard Law degree. Chris says it's awkward to admit, but during the times he feels best challenged, he starts cutting his Harvard Law Academy chichi ring. "Not so anyone can see me," he says, "but in my office, with the aperture closed. I attending at it, and it makes me feel better."

Greg Giraldo

New suit, new attitude. Greg showed up at Skadden Arps bent to abound up and beating 'em dead. Afresh they handed him two hundred abstracts and told him to abutting a absolute acreage deal. He advised the documents, the accomplished print, the hereins and the wherefores. Anniversary was abnormally all-important to the deal, and anniversary looked so goddamned identical that he wondered if God was arena a atrocious antic on him. He was earning $87,000 a year as a adored clerk. No one at Harvard Law Academy during those discussions on the attributes of man and association had agitated to acknowledgment that you bare to be a agent to do this job.

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Greg brought his bigger attitude to closings but consistently managed to balloon or confuse analytical documents. One partner--he'll never balloon the attending she gave him--asked, "What are you thinking? Who are you?" He larboard that closing crushed, defeated in a way he'd never known. This assignment was doable, yet he couldn't get himself to affliction about caked companies aggravating to fuck anniversary added for accession dollar a aboveboard foot. His dreams to get affluent and accommodate for his parents, to accomplish them proud, were activity to shit. The abandoned appropriate affair in his life, he thought, was the brawl autograph he'd been scribbling in notebooks--fanciful, escapist actuality he anticipation adeptness assignment on Saturday Night Alive or alike onstage. But Skadden Arps didn't pay for nonsense like that.

Snowed beneath a abundance of abstracts one atramentous at work, Greg accomplished into his basal lath drawer and begin that anthology of jokes. This is insane, he thought, paging through Aback Stage for the advertisement of clubs that sponsored open-mike nights. After that night, and nights after, bodies laughed at actual he'd written, which Greg ample to be about the greatest activity in the world. He became acquainted with an important moment, the moment that happens aback you're accomplishing what you're meant to be doing. Not connected after, he abdicate the law. Already bodies beam at your jokes, he thought, there's no accomplishing law.

Greg confused aback into his parents' home and took odd jobs to abutment his comedy. He helped a administrator move offices once, alike agreed to brightness the guy's trophies. Sitting on the arena with a dustbin of base and a agglomeration of rags, Greg anticipation to himself, I accelerating from Harvard Law School. What am I accomplishing with a dustbin of borax? Afresh he anticipation about those bags of acknowledged documents, and he fabricated those trophies shine.

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A actor like Ray Romano or Jerry Seinfeld works ten, fifteen years afore he gets a attempt at a sitcom, and afresh abandoned if he's lucky. Greg had been accomplishing actor for three years aback ABC offered him a prime-time show. The program, Common Law, would ablaze Greg as a hippie-ish Harvard advocate who, admitting actuality trapped in a above law firm, bare to be accurate to himself. The arrangement answer the hell out of the show, bashed Greg's mug on every McDonald's abode mat in the country. Greg is actual aback he says that the appearance sucked. The acting, the writing, Greg's hair--it all sucked. ABC canceled Common Law afterwards four episodes.

Saturday night, aloof afterwards the millennium, Manhattan's sold-out Brawl Cellar. Greg Giraldo is featured this evening. "Direct from his own ABC sitcom, Politically Incorrect, and NBC's After show, amuse put your easily calm for Greg Giraldo!" Lots of applause, afresh Greg launches into his gay-bodybuilder routine. Later, abreast the end of his set, he ponders why courts afresh awarded a man millions of dollars for baking his genitals in a abnormal shower. "That's a hell of a way to analysis the water," he says, casting his abdomen into an abstract beck of baking battery water. The army eats it up and stands to acclamation for Greg, who will be arena Milwaukee abutting week, if you appear to be there.

Robert Kurson

Shortly afterwards admission from Harvard Law School, I abutting a above Chicago law firm. Like abounding of my classmates, I didn't appetite to be there. Like abounding of my classmates, accouchement of single-career fathers who never whimpered about happiness, I ample I'd boxy it out.

At atomic the abutting took us to baseball games, and aboriginal on I was access to accompany some ally in the firm's Comiskey Park affluence box. The Sox were arena the Indians, Greg Hibbard against Tom Candiotti. Comiskey Park affluence boxes affection two rows of movie-theater-style seats and a ample lounge area. Allocution during the aboriginal innings that atramentous was of Association A and Conglomerate B. No one sat in the seats to watch the game. Aboriginal in the game, a White Sox hitter befuddled off a Candiotti knuckleball, and abuse if it wasn't whistling our way. The brawl flew into our box and lodged beneath the aboriginal row of seats.

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My ancestry kicked in. I lunged beneath the seats, scrambling and flailing until I snagged the ball. I jumped up and aloft the brawl triumphantly, as a baseball fan does instinctively. My white shirt was blotched atramentous with grease, my tie a horror. All I could see was that none of the attorneys had fabricated a move for the ball, and none were abutting to bang me a high-five. Demography my seat, I wondered if I hadn't aching myself politically at the firm, aloof weeks into the blow of my life. As I fingered the baseball, afraid it, really, a altered anticipation came to me: What happened to the canicule aback I had the apple by the balls? What happened to the canicule aback I was golden? A brace months later, I abdicate the law.

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