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...provocative foreword by Dante's doyen John Freccero is as much troubling as it is enlightening. Freccero makes some insightful observations, most notably about the tension between characters 'historical identities and their allegorical functions in the Comedy but his treatment of the administration of justice in hell is not fully developed...
...author Schiller wrote in a foreword that from the very start, before they could even get the tape going, Simpson gushed ``like torrents cascading from a ruptured dam'' and that Schiller had to interrupt him to channel his thoughts. As it turned out, Schiller could have channeled a little more carefully. In one passage, for instance, Simpson describes his rage over biased press coverage as he sat in the back of Al Cowling's Bronco. ``Dan Rather was on the radio and he started talking about eight or nine different reports of domestic spousal abuse calls from my house...
Eaton, an honorary visiting scholar at theSchlesinger Library, is the author of the study.Orfield, who is the director of the HarvardProject on School Desegregation, supervised thereport and wrote a foreword...
...press, which led eventually to the President's withdrawl of her nomination, can itself be read as a signal of a "national discomfort with the brute facts of racial injustice." At least, this is the interpretation placed on last year's events both by Stephen L. Carter's foreword to the collection, and by Guinier's specially written introduction. Framed in this way, the book becomes a forum for the public hearing on her views that Guinier never...
...there is one criticism of this book it is that its framing as a vindication of Guinier's qualification for the role from which she was debarred detracts from the interest and complexity of her arguments themselves. The unfairness of her treatment is so obvious from the introduction and foreword that her Law Review articles themselves begin to seem like a rather unwieldy piece of evidence, rather than the main substance of the book. This problem is reinforced by the fact that, although the articles have been adapted for re-publication and each is prefaced by a note of explanation...