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A year and a half ago, The New York Times Magazine claimed that law was becoming the standard default profession for intelligent, non-science oriented Americans unable to decide upon their occupations after finishing college. This campus provides no evidence to the contrary. Look around and count. If your friends...
A mandatory period of public service law would serve another purpose as well. Law is a profession with a moral basis that we should seek to enhance. Strictly speaking, attorneys are already officers of the court and carry the ethical responsibilities bound up with that status. It may be time...
Lawyers, like politicians and teachers, are among those most responsible for shaping the standards of our community. But the image of the American legal profession is a tarnished one, and understandably so. Transforming the structure of responsibilities in that profession would change the assumptions that surround it.
Historians can be divided according to their preferences for explanation. On one side are the "networkers"--often more conservative, and generally more influential in Britain--who are intrigued by elites and attribute great events to individuals or small groups. They are especially attuned to psychological explanations, personal or national. They...
Annette Bening plays whores too -- Hollywood sometimes thinks that for women prostitution is the world's only profession -- but these doxies are in control. The smile that dimples her face in Valmont and The Grifters signals the sexual predator anticipating a hearty meal. An off-Broadway alumnus, Bening also did...