Word: berkeley
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...Despite his love for law, Traynor thinks that the country has too many laws, especially those that clog the courts with auto cases and those that "try to legislate morals." He has certainly studied the subject. Once a law professor at Berkeley (his alma mater), Traynor has enriched his judicial career with a prodigious flow of law-review articles. Next month he will return to scholarship as a visiting law professor at the University of Virginia. He also chairs an American Bar Association committee that is drafting a new code of ethics for judges in response to the Abe Fortas...
Public schools in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Kansas City, Berkeley, and New Haven will be closed all day today. Boston schools will remain open except King Middle School in Roxbury, which will close at noon...
Similar programs have been developed at Yale. Berkeley and M. I. T. in an attempt to reduce the gap between academic studies and on-the-job realities. The Harvard program not only involves GSD students but individuals from the Law and Business Schools...
Almost seventy years later, the Ivy grip remains unbroken. This year Eliot House tied the University of California at Berkeley in Scholarships and beat the University of Cincinnati...
...such stories Borges is playing with philosophy-Schopenhauer's concepts from The World as Will and Idea, Bishop Berkeley's assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes...