Word: yao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Yao, author of Packaging: Your Key to the Top Law Schools, now gives us a new philosophy: Let's make everybody a lawyer. Or, at the very least, let's get everybody into law school...
...problem with Packaging, however, is that if you really need Yao's advice, your chances of getting accepted to one of his "top-ten" law schools are probably slimmer than his book (127 pages). Packaging is very serious about being remedial. The book is typeset with letters large enough for Dr. Seuss captions. And it is written, according to Yao, "like a good legal memorandum..lean, basic, and in plain English" I don't know about the "legal memorandum" stuff, but Yao isn't kidding about the plain English. A sample: "Misspellings and typos often overlap. It is sometimes hard...
...level of discourse in Packaging gets only slightly more complex. Yao does suggest some good strategies for gearing applications to specific types of law schools, and he also gives some decent advice to "minorities" (a word he inexplicably insists on putting in quotation marks). Yao compiled Packaging, he tells us, by interviewing successful and unsuccessful law school applicants, and by basing "some part of it" on his own experience (he got into "about half" of the law schools to which he applied...
Moreover, Yao's tale raises even more questions than it answers. Could Lin, one of China's greatest generals, really have been as reckless and incompetent, just at the point of starting the coup, as he appears in this book? What plausibility is there in the statement that Lin Liguo planned to blow up Mao's train, traveling at 70 m.p.h., with ground-to-ground missiles guided from more than 90 miles away? Even less credible is Yao's theory that the Trident, with Lin Liguo aboard, was hit by missiles while still in Chinese airspace...
...Peking, Chinese officials privately describe Yao's book as "silly." In the U.S., Chinese embassy officials have gone even further, denouncing the account as "more ridiculous than Hitler's diaries." Curiously, Peking's diplomatic community has shied away from discussions of the book even in private. But the credibility of conspiracy theories cuts two ways: until Peking produces a more satisfactory account of the affair than it has so far offered, accounts like Yao Ming-Le's will continue to draw speculators...