Dave wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote:

No, he wasn't editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was on staff, but
not Editor. This is an exaggeration...a resume enhancement...not a
fact. One of several things he's not been entirely accurate about.




"February 6, 1990 br /
First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review
By FOX BUTTERFIELD, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES

LEAD: The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious
in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year
history today. The job is considered the highest student position at
Harvard Law School.

The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the
country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history
today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law
School.

The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate
of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community
development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before
enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance
minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American
anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in
Hawaii.

''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama
said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging.

''But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that
everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one
of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least
equal talent who don't get a chance,'' he said, alluding to poverty or
growing up in a drug environment."

"President", not "editor".

"The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School."

-New York Times



Interesting that he didn't publish during his time there...being what
one colleague refers to as 'the laziest president of Harvard Law Review.'