Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, scoffed at the Republican senators' statement.

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Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, scoffed at the senators' statement.

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Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, called the obstruction charge "weak, " suggesting it was meant to pressure the suspects into providing more information on Tsarnaev.

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Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, said called the obstruction charge "weak, " suggesting it was meant to pressure the suspects into providing more information on Tsarnaev.

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OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.

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In the late 1990s, teams of researchers at the Harvard school of public health interviewed dozens of people who had wielded a gun for self-defense. (In many cases, the guns were not fired, but were simply brandished.) The researchers pressed for the fullest description of exactly what happened.

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