Word: shadowed
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...SHADOW OF THE LAW -- KERMIT ROOSEVELT...
...wouldn't be wrong to call In the Shadow of the Law a legal thriller, but it would sell the book short. There are suspenseful, devious plots aplenty--one about a last-minute death-row appeal, another about a corporation's dodging blame for an industrial accident--but it's Shadow's cast of characters, largely overworked junior lawyers, that will keep you up at night. Roosevelt (a descendant of Theodore and a former Supreme Court clerk) writes about the law more passionately and entertainingly than anyone since Scott Turow...
...parents’ generation set out to change the world, and I cannot shake this sense of despair that our own generation might fade having lingered too long brooding in the shadow of their failure. Too often, we fight for our ideals in our parents’ same tired tradition—sit-ins, teach-ins, walk-outs, et cetera. It seems right, and yet sometimes I wonder whether they are staged more for our own peace-of-mind than for the effectiveness of their persuasion...
Copyright concerns aren’t the only clouds casting a shadow over the print engine’s digitalization project. Since its unveiling in December, the plan has also garnered outcry in Europe for encouraging cultural imperialism...
While Dmitri seems to have broken into the spotlight, there was once a time when he lived in his father’s shadow...