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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Manuscript draft / memoir excerpt (evidence)
File Size:
2.78 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page from a memoir or manuscript draft (labeled 4.2.12 with a word count) written by a Harvard Law professor (likely Alan Dershowitz). The text recounts anecdotes from his early teaching career, including unintentional offenses regarding racial/ethnic sensitivity in the classroom and his relationship with Dean Erwin Griswold, who mentored him and sent him on a trip to Europe. The document bears a House Oversight Committee Bates stamp.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Author | Law Professor |
Narrator of the text. Likely Alan Dershowitz based on biographical details (Harvard professor, Brooklyn accent, Jewis...
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| Clark Byse | Professor |
Colleague who informed the author about the parking spot issue.
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| Erwin Griswold | Dean |
Dean of the Law School who mentored the author and sent him to Europe.
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| Chinese American student | Student |
Student who took offense to the phrase 'Chinese Wall'.
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| First year student | Student |
Student who used an anti-Semitic slur ('Jew him down') in class.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Harvard Law School |
Implied by 'Dean Griswold', 'Professor Clark Byse', and explicitly mentioned in the last paragraph.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Indicated by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (3 events)
First year teaching
Author inadvertently offended a Chinese American student by using the legal term 'Chinese Wall' and the phrase 'chink in the wall'.
Classroom
Locations (8)
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Educational setting where the events took place.
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Region of the US the author had barely left.
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Origin of the author's accent.
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Destination for a criminology trip.
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Destination for a criminology trip.
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City visited on the trip.
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City visited on the trip.
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Referenced regarding affirmative action laws.
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Relationships (2)
Griswold decided to take me on as a project.
Professor Clark Byse mentioned at lunch...
Key Quotes (5)
"There may have been a chink in the Chinese Wall."Source
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Quote #1
"No, we’re an audible minority."Source
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Quote #2
"I would have tried to Jew him down a bit."Source
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Quote #3
"Dean Griswold was sizzling mad because someone was taking his parking spot every day."Source
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Quote #4
"I still spoke with a pretty thick Brooklyn accent and, occasionally, allowed Yiddishisms to creep into my conversation."Source
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Quote #5
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