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Something I Was Good At

Posted on June 16, 2013, 11:22 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

The accepted metaphor for this coordination of the various branches of the law is “the seamless web.” But the tight four-part harmony of the Manhattan Transfer would have been closer to the mark.

Tags: 1979, 52nd Street, Art Blakey, Birdland, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Parker, Count Basie, DLA Piper, Joe Zawinul, John Coltrane, John dos Passos, Jon Hendricks, law review, law school, Maurice Braverman, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Monterey, Morgan State University, Piper & Marbury, poverty lawyer, Praeger Publishers, seamless web, small section, the Animals, THe Manhattan Transfer, vocalese, WEAA, Weather Report
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Two Lawyers Named Thomas

Posted on June 2, 2013, 8:28 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

In a barbaric legal culture, even conscientious lawyers are likely to find themselves acting a lot like barbarians.

Tags: Anne Boleyn, annulment, beheading, Bloody Mary, burning at the stake, burning of heretics, Catherine of Aragon, divorce, Eighth Amendment, Elizabeth I, expropriation of monasteries, Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Henry VIII, Hilary Mantel, imagining the king's death, Jonathan Sumption, King Henry VIII, kulaks, male succession, monasteries, police power, primogeniture, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary, sanguinary punishments, separation of church and state, Stalinist, The Tudors, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, treason
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