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...many, change seems inevitable. Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer believes that the increase of plea bargaining, no-fault insurance, smaller juries and non-unanimous verdicts are all signs of an erosion of "classical notions of Anglo-Saxon justice." Chief Justice Warren Burger seeks higher educational and other standards for those admitted to the trial bar in the hope of eliminating frivolous, time-consuming contentiousness. New York Federal Judge Marvin E. Frankel points to a much deeper problem in the procedural games that adversary attorneys play. Because they often use the rules to trample the truth, Frankel has gently proposed thinking...
During the 19th century, an Anglo-Indian tourist decided to make sketches of some bas-reliefs that were on the wall of Pharaoh Amun-Hotpe's tomb. To save himself hours in the hot, stuffy tomb, he chiseled off the bas-reliefs and took them to his boat. When he had finished his sketches, he simply dropped the priceless stones into the Nile...
...Anglo-Saxon riddles (usually in the form of "what am I?") come down to us without any answers, although most have now been reasonably deduced. An example of the early Anglo-Saxon attitude toward reading can be found in this riddle...
...answer to this riddle is "Book" according to R.K. Gordon, although there seems to be evidence that it is "Blue Book" (thus the work belongs to the literature of the exam period). But clearly we can see how the Anglo-Saxons believed that using a book, or reading it would gain the owner of the book virtual immortality (modern scholars have quibbled over the phrase, "use me," some contending it means simply "put on an expansive shelf," and not "read...
...major work of the reading period genre is another Anglo-Saxon riddle...