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...well doubt the efficacy of the many schemes devised to reorient the thinking of lawyers by altering legal education in America. These proposals come mostly from academic lawyers who, like their medical school counterparts, have a rather different view of their profession than do their client-oriented former students. Many academic lawyers would like to see a public-spirited political elite replace the private-law practicing lawyers whom they now teach....Everything from the study of Chaucer to the pursuit of 'social science' has been proposed to this end. What has not been shown, however, is that changes...
...food that wasn't kosher. Never before has Roth written fiction with such clear conviction. Never before has he assembled so many fully formed characters or shuttled so authoritatively through time. One barely notices that the narrator is Nathan Zuckerman, the Newark-born writer who is Roth's frenzied alter id in the Ghost Writer trilogy. Significantly, the one character who most resembles Roth is a quiet master leather cutter, 40 years at Newark Maid, who lets his scissors do the talking. American Pastoral, too, fits like a glove...
...Depressing news about depression. A 29-year study finds that CLINICALLY DEPRESSED adults may face a 50% increased risk of dying from stroke. Depression--which is treatable--may somehow alter blood-platelet activity, which in turn may trigger clot formation...
...most Americans already know by now, not only does DeGeneres boast this particular bedroom proclivity, but in the coming weeks her TV alter ego--conveniently named Ellen--will also profess to being a lesbian. And, this it seems, forms the basis for all of the hoopla. In less than a month, American television will showcase the first homosexual leading lady. Hurray for another cultural landmark...
...think it would fundamentally alter the landscape, changing the relationships between professors and students," Wolff says...