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DIED. Henry J. Friendly, 82, judge for 27 years on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; an apparent suicide (by pill overdose) one year after the death of his wife of 55 years; in New York City. An Eisenhower appointee, Friendly wrote lucid and precedent-setting opinions on civil, criminal and constitutional issues that earned him a reputation (along with the late Learned Hand, among others) as one of the greatest U.S. jurists never to sit on the Supreme Court...
While inventing and telling such incidents the author remains both sympathetic and dispassionate. Narayan's mastery of lucid English has somehow been achieved without the condescension and exasperation that Western converts often feel toward their unenlightened compatriots. The narrator of Annamalai, a writer by trade, describes his method of coping with a difficult but intriguing servant: "The only way to exist in harmony with Annamalai was to take him as he was; to improve or enlighten him would only exhaust the reformer and disrupt nature's design." From Narayan's decision to suspend judgments hangs a galaxy of irresistible tales...
...model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here are camels and trucks, scimitars and machine guns, lions and airplanes in a clash of politics and, more significantly, of centuries. It is a tribute to Mockler that he has managed to make this convoluted tale lucid and compelling. Still, he needed some five decades to go by before the sorrows of Ethiopia could be seen in light of the calamities of Abyssinia. --By Mayo Mohs
...euthanasia or abortion. I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, one thing God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what's going on in America. That Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks. I mean, in America that's going to happen if we don't win this fight...
...Posner writes, “social control of science cannot be left to the scientists.” In challenging his readers to wade into the arcane debate over strangelet disasters, Posner brings particle physics to the masses. By framing cost-benefit calculations in lucid prose, Posner helps the non-economists among us make decisions in the face of unlikely but potentially earth-shattering risks...