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  <title>MLP presents Charles Nesson of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society</title>
  <description>May 12: MLP presents Charles Nesson of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society at Ukrainian East Restaurant</description>
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  <upcoming:description><![CDATA[Our guest speaker for our May 12 meeting will be Charles Nesson, Founder and President of the GlobalPoker Strategic Thinking Society, speaking about legalizing internet (and in-person) poker.

http://gpsts.org

The William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, Charles Nesson is the author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, 
including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case and consulted on the case against W.R. Grace that was adapted into the film A Civil Action.

Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, and Harvard Law School. After joining the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the Law School, he was a Law Clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 term. After working in the Department of Justice, Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.

He is currently leading a project to reify the university as a meta player in cyberspace, to legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic poker thinking, and to advance restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches a course in the law and practice of evidence. In the fall of 
2006, he taught CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion, which welcomed the participation of the Internet community at large through the Second Life virtual world. In 2007 he is teaching, in addition to CyberOne, Trials in Second Life and a reading group on freedom.

He blogs regularly at eon: 
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  <title>MPP Medical Marijuana Benefit</title>
  <description>May 14: MPP Medical Marijuana Benefit at Highline Ballroom</description>
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  <upcoming:description><![CDATA[&quot;You&#39;re invited to an evening with the Marijuana Policy Project at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan to benefit seriously ill New Yorkers who need safe access to medical marijuana.&quot; Guests include Nicole Atkins &amp; The Sea, Kurt Loder, Michelle Phillips, Montel Williams, John Stossel.]]></upcoming:description>
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  <title>Libertarian National Convention</title>
  <description>May 22: Libertarian National Convention at Adam&#39;s Mark Hotel</description>
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  <upcoming:venuename>Adam&#39;s Mark Hotel</upcoming:venuename>
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  <upcoming:description><![CDATA[The 2008 Libertarian National Convention will be held in Denver, Colorado over Memorial Day weekend from May 22 to May 26, 2008.

During the convention, nearly 1,000 delegates from around the nation will gather to select their presidential and vice presidential nominees. In addition, delegates will elect new officers and debate possible changes to the national platform and bylaws.

The convention venue is the luxurious Adam&#39;s Mark Hotel in downtown Denver. The hotel is within short walking distance to many restaurants and activities that the entire family can enjoy.]]></upcoming:description>
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