--A search of the Harvard University Library digital image collection appears to reveal that group pictures of graduate students from 1988 through 2003 are missing from the collection. Obama was in the graduating class of 1991.
However, Obama is shown in this picture, of the Harvard Law Review for 1990-91. He's in the center. This is the only record in the database the comes up using the string "Obama".
from comments on thread, this may have been altered. (Obama has a long arm)
Link to the older thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2118690/posts?page=88
—A search of the Harvard University Library digital image collection appears to reveal that group pictures of graduate students from 1988 through 2003 are missing from the collection. Obama was in the graduating class of 1991.
However, Obama is shown in this picture, of the Harvard Law Review for 1990-91. He’s in the center. This is the only record in the database the comes up using the string “Obama”.
....
“Group pictures of graduate students from 1988 through 2003 are missing from the collection”
Just throwing this one out there:
Let’s say there’s someone who has done very well in college as an undergrad (no B.S., no affirmative action, no fluff: just a good solid record of scholarship and research and extracurricular activities and service). Said person is exceptional and a very attractive candidate for Harvard Law.
Said person applies to Harvard Law.
Said person is accepted to Harvard Law.
Said person is a contemporary of BO’s at Harvard Law (remember law school is three years, this person is in the same class BO was supposedly in, or one year above or below, his/her years at HLS would have overlapped with BO’s years).
Said person, all other things being equal, would have had the career of a successful JD student: someone with excellent grades, effective service (not a seat-warmer) on one of the leading student journals (Harvard Law Review), someone who passed the bar exam after only one or two tries, someone who obtained a federal judicial clerkship and worked for a major law firm after graduation.
and
Said person, when a search is done on him or her, is UTTERLY INVISIBLE in the record. There is NO RECORD of Law Review editorial activity, no mention of when this person graduated, no mention of where this person clerked, etc.
A BIG GAP, in other words.
Note, it bears repeating: this person was not a slacker or a dope, but a high achiever. A contemporary of BO’s, erased from the HLS record.
Coincidence?
Seventy people on the Harvard Law Review staff! How large is the Harvard Law School enrollment?
How many people know that the year Barry was going to be a senior is the first year that the position of “editor” was changed to “president” of the review who was chosen by vote of members, not by faculty advisors?