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