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February 8, 2009
- Duncan Kennedy, one of the most sophisticated legal scholars that the U.S. academia can display has written this important op ed on the Harvard Crimson. Duncan's book "A Critique of Adjudication" has been highly influential in my own thinking about the rule of law and its strategic uses.Gaza. The Context.by Duncan Kennedy When I told a friend, a former section leader in a large ...
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February 22, 2008
- I'm reminded of William S. Burroughs lately-Language is a virus from outer space, and the wonderful tagline from Laurie Anderson: "That's why I'd rather hear your name than see your face. She also uses a wonderful line from her lyrics: "And I had to sell the car and go to Florida because that's just my way of saying 'That I love you'" I guess I'm always reminded of this quote ...
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February 18, 2008
- Oh, the predictability.Just weeks after I wrote an editorial criticizing Matt Barber, of Concerned Women for America -- one of the first homophobic organizations to latch onto the UCSF press release relating to staph infections (MRSA) as evidence of the danger of homosexuality -- he has retaliated by quoting from a satirical article I wrote back in 2005 titled "The Gay Agenda"In my ...
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