The late Supreme Court Justice, Antiden Scalia, is speaking at American University's Washington

College of Law.

Thank you, thank you very much, Professor Marcus, Dean Grossman, ladies and gentlemen.

I began one of my either talks or Laurie B. Arty.

The students are all dressed up for the occasion.

C. Span is recording.

There's a big stage, hung with blue polyester drapes, Scalia holds forth.

His black hair swept back from his forehead, glasses on his nose, strong and square, all

intellectual heft and force, gripping the podium like it's a slab of beef.

The administrative law is not for sissies.

It is a very difficult course to teach and I assume certainly wasn't my day, a hard

course to master.

It's vintage Scalia.

The audience hangs on his every word.

He finishes triumphantment, then hands shoot in the air.

Good afternoon, my name is Christina Stutt, I'm a one-out student here at WC.

Christina Stutt, first-year student.

I have a more general question and that is the part of American ethos is that our society

is a meritocracy where hard work can tell not lead to success.

But there are other important factors like connections and elite degrees and I'm wondering

other than grades of journal.

What do smart hard working WCL students with strong writing skills need to do to be outrageously

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