June 07, 2003
WAR/LAW: War Profits For HLS?
I meant to blog about this when I got it a couple of months ago: of all the examples I've seen of shameless attempts to profit from the war in Iraq, few of them irritated me more than a letter I received that used the war as an excuse to ask for money for Harvard Law School. Of course, just asking for money's not enough; HLS has to use the occasion to ask for $1000 donation. The text of the letter is scanned below:

Hi Baseball Crank,
What is the context of the letter and who signed it?
The letter is dated April 10, 2003, on Harvard Law School Fund letterhead, from the Chair of the Harvard Law School Fund.
I don't doubt that the author had the best of intentions, but the letter is just an absurdly ham-handed effort to squeeze some pro-HLS sentiment out of the war.