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...power of the state. In an essay on China's legal system, he cites a passage written by the 17th century Qing Emperor Kangxi: "If people were not afraid of the tribunals, and if they felt confident of always finding in them ready and perfect justice, lawsuits would tend to increase to a frightful amount," the passage reads. "Those who have recourse to the tribunals should be treated without any pity, and in such a manner that they shall be disgusted with law, and tremble to appear before a magistrate...
...cities, the authorities tend to be advised by savvy attorneys who know that if they do things like that they will be in trouble. So you're more likely to see them in small towns that are, say, 95% Southern Baptist, where the town fathers were unlikely to be thinking about diversity but a small minority was upset by what seems like a civic religious gesture. Then the cases were picked up by ideologues on both sides - The ACLU or the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is affiliated with Pat Robertson - to further their own agendas...
Some products have a lucrative rub-off effect. A supermarket-strategy firm found that shoppers who buy silver polish tend to spend more than $200 a trip. So even though it's a low-turnover product, shelving experts keep it around...
...Harvard, “we tend to have this categorical, black-letter-law approach,” says Dale, the Medical School research dean...
...into a shooting war, the most effective way of getting a cease-fire appears to be firing a few dozen badly aimed rockets into southern Israel and then waiting for the Israelis to intervene - which the Israelis invariably do. And when under fire from the Israelis, the Palestinian militants tend to stop killing each other, as happened last Sunday...