Word: theodor
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Proceeding from there to an even broader indictment, the crits have borrowed from philosophical realms outside legal thought, including structuralism, semiotics and the "Frankfurt school" of such neo-Marxist theorists as Jürgen Habermas and Theodor Adorno. They propose that law is no more than a means by which unjust power relations are dressed in the costume of eternal truths. Some of the C.L.S. adherents, like Kennedy, also flaunt a confrontational '60s style of incivility and antic provocation in relations with their colleagues. But at bottom, he is deadly serious. "The legalization of the rules," Kennedy inveighs, "the presentation...
...could have declared that some cake or a slice'll be left in dry ice-ll for Theodor "Geissel...
...Geisel's centenary - the Seussentennial, his publishers call it - is being celebrated with a U.S. postage stamp in his honor, a cross-country caravan of books and playlets and (my favorite) Charles D. Cohen's "The Seuss the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel." It's a trove of Seussiana, with special attention to Geisel's formative years in college and in the Manhattan magazine and advertising business. Indeed, Cohen seems to have run out of steam, space or interest when it came to Geisel's mature work in books and film...
...Cafe Laumer Try the famous Frankfurter Kranz, a ring-shaped butter-cream gâteau garnished with candied cherries and chopped caramelized nuts at Café Laumer at 67, Bockenheimer Landstrasse, the favorite haunt of philosopher-sociologist Theodor Adorno. www.cafe-laumer.de...
...fined €1.4 million for misleading investors and inflating share prices with rosy €300 million profit forecasts while EMTV was actually headed for a €1.4 billion loss. Not a huge fine, but perhaps a huge precedent for the 2,000 EMTV shareholders now filing civil suits, says Theodor Baums, architect of the government's plans to make executives more accountable. "Germany's regulations are outdated," he says, "and executives can't be held liable in a civil court until they are penalized by a criminal court." That should change soon, as lawmakers catch up to international standards. Meanwhile...