February 2012
11 posts
There are two ways of talking,” he said. “One is the easy way, where you talk...
– V.S. Naipul, “A New, Noiser Way of Writing”
Dr. Max Sanders, an exercise physiologist at the University of California at San...
– Bob Glover “The Runner’s Handbook”
Sociologists now have data showing that women who can maintain friendships...
– Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls from Ames”
Life shocks us into silence.
– Teju Cole “A Particular Eye, A Particular Sensibility” The Hindu
Surgeons, as a group, adhere to a curious egalitarianism. They believe in...
– Atul Gawande “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Improper Science”
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found...
– Song of Solomon 3: 1-4
Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage....
– Nicholas D. Kristof “The White Underclass”
There are a hundred and one reasons why a woman will pause when an unknown man...
– K.R.V. “A Hundred and One Reasons”
Google’s 70/20/10 rule: Each employee should spend 70 percent of her time...
– “Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company’s Intellectual Property” by Andrew J. Sherman
WHY art thou silent? Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the...
– William Wordsworth “To a Distant Friend”
The only language of loss left in the world is Arabic.
These words were said to...
– Agha Shahid Ali “Ghazal”
January 2012
1 post
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
– Virginia Wolf “A Room of Her Own”
December 2011
2 posts
The Congress incumbent had been going around the bastis, handing out...
– Vikram Chandra “Sacred Games”
I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain
November 2011
4 posts
But why did I go to all the trouble? It is because of what some of the older...
– Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Being but men, we walked into the trees
Afraid, letting our syllables be soft...
– Dylan Thomas “Being But Men”
Inanition “Covers not getting enough food; or in very stressed infants,...
– Bennett Ex Rel. Irvine v. Philadelphia 499 F.3d 281 (3rd Cir. 2007)
Based on the recommendation of the Child Protection Team, the juvenile court...
– DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
October 2011
3 posts
In 2001, Boston police officers received a tip that a Kmart employee, Thomas...
– MELENDEZ-DIAZ v. MASSACHUSETTS 129 S.Ct. 2527 (2009)
Variations of the self-imposed delay-of-gratification situation in preschool...
– “Predicting Adolescent Cognitive and Self-Regulatory Competencies from Preschool Delay of Gratification: Identifying Diagnostic Conditions.” Shoda, Yuichi; Mischel, Walter; Peake, Philip K. (1990).
September 2011
1 post
Now suppose, however, that the investigation reveals that the vaunted...
– Impeaching the Hearsay Declarant. David Sonensheim.
August 2011
4 posts
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover...
– Grace Paley “The Paris Review”
In Birmingham, Alabama, I taught “self-esteem” in the Department of Family...
– Deb Olin Unferth The Paris Review
What is the history, you might ask, behind “curry”? “Whenever...
– Passport Photos Amitava Kumar
I had no shoes. He told me, Remember, when there is war, the first thing is...
– Primo Levi Paris Review
July 2011
5 posts
One of his [Sanjay Gandhi] particular concerns was the rapid rise of...
– Patrick French, India: A Portrait
Although he never made the point explicitly, I believe Nehru’s attitude...
– Patrick French, India: A Portrait
Based on his tests, Dr. Beroes concluded that the Doritos were dangerous and...
– Grady v. Frito-Lay, 2003
Rumor had it
she jogged the river trail
in a sari. Chiffon layers
...
– Rumor by Dilruba Ahmed
I said, “Did you know Indar before?” “I met him here.”...
– A Bend in The River by V.S. Naipul
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
Between October 1982 and June 1983 Tracey Thurman repeatedly called the...
– Thurman v. City of Torrington (1984)
Pan Am sought, through a psychiatrist, Dr. Eric Berne, author of the “Structure...
– Diaz v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1971)
Colleen Hermesmann routinely provided care for Shane Seyer as a baby sitter or...
– -State Ex. Rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer. Supreme Court of Kansas. 1993.
If you wanted to get to know someone’s unconscious, all you had to do was take a...
– - Meg Wolitzer. The Uncoupling
March 2011
1 post
Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we...
– tinkers Paul Harding
February 2011
4 posts
Appellant Louis Porreco (“Louis”) was forty-five years old, and...
– Porreco v. Porreco, Supreme Court of PA, 2002.
Apparently, Berkeley’s policy with respect to refunds was to “make it as...
– United States v. Warshak, 2010 W.L. 5071766 (C.A. 6 Mich.)
An employer who objects to aggressiveness in women but those positions require...
– Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins 1989
Central to this dispute about the division of marital assets is the...
– Ketterle v. Ketterle. Appeals Ct. of MA, 2004.
November 2010
3 posts
to permit copyrighting would mean that a party or parties by copyrighting a mere...
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- Morrissey v. Proctor & Gamble
The defendant appeals from a sentence of five years’ imprisonment in the...
– State v. Hayes
A bartender in the Melody Lounge noticed that an electric light bulb which was...
– -Commonwealth v. Welansky 1994 CRIMINAL LAW
October 2010
1 post
This started out as a run-of-the-mill Hollywood squabble. Defendant Larry Cohen...
– Effects Assoc. v. Cohen, 908 F.2d 555 (CA 9 1990)
September 2010
1 post
John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1, died on July
22, 1934, at the Biograph...
– -Nash v. CBS, Inc. 1990
August 2010
5 posts
While life in maximum security prisons is usually monotonous and boring, the...
– -Richard A. Wright Prisoners: Prisoners Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Four young men, of whom Coppola was one, were at work repairing an automobile in...
– People v. Zackovitz. Criminal Law. Kadish/Schulhofer/Steiker
You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for...
– Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Since my last visit to Karachi, my friend the poet had spent many months in...
– Shame by Salman Rushdie