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If you want to add material about the student experience at Harvard, please provide sources (eg school newspaper articles, etc). Otherwise we have to remove it. Thanks. The Land 15:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in the paragraph

She also kicked off a $400 million capital campaign in 2003; it is scheduled to end in 2008. Reports are that the Law School has raised about $260 million to date, putting it slightly ahead of schedule.

"to date" is vague, given that this is an encylopedia and not a newspaper! If anyone has more precise details, please correct. Traumerei 20:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TO whomever keeps adding the line about her becoming president of Harvard - STOP. While we all wish it to be true, this has not been announced yet and is not necessarily going to happen. 140.247.10.147 02:15, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

I had always assumed that her last name was pronounced /kəˈgɑːn/. However, in all the commentary over her potential as a Supreme Court nominee, I hear it pronounced /ˈkeɪgən/. I may add this to the main page Grover cleveland (talk) 14:54, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jewish

Don't know about gay, but with a surname like Kagan it's pretty hard not to be Jewish. Anyway, we have sources like {{Cite web |url=http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/06/1002012/obama-names-jewish-woman-as-solicitor-general |title=Obama names Jewish woman as solicitor general |publisher=JTA |date=January 6, 2009}} ("Obama names Jewish woman as solicitor general". JTA. January 6, 2009.) and an interesting article {{Cite web |url=http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Kagan.html |title=Elena Kagan: Jewish Ethnic Networking Eases the Path of a Liberal/Leftist to the Supreme Court |author=Kevin MacDonald |publisher=theoccidentalobserve.net|date=May 20, 2009}} (Kevin MacDonald (May 20, 2009). "Elena Kagan: Jewish Ethnic Networking Eases the Path of a Liberal/Leftist to the Supreme Court". theoccidentalobserve.net.). Could somebody work that into the article? Debresser (talk) 00:06, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You could. Be WP:BOLD in editing. Reliefappearance (talk) 14:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]