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When Elmore Leonard writes a thriller called Get Shorty, you know he's going to get Shorty. Leonard does not fool around. It does occur to the reader, a couple of pages before the end of the last chapter, that no character named Shorty has yet appeared. But Leonard is our funniest and most reliable folklorist of low, middle and upper-middle lowlife -- the kind of human lint that accumulates in society's navel. He knows his business, doesn...
Nonetheless, the thesis is telling in at least one respect--it strongly reflects the careful deliberation and organization that marks most of Souter's subsequent legal writing. During the course of the three-chapter paper,Souter orders his arguments almost as if writing amathematical proof, often pausing to repeat hisarguments before moving...
Souter's first chapter focuses on Holmes'conception of law. Souter says that Holmesbelieves laws are essentially prophecies of howfuture judges will interpret them. According toSouter, Holmes believes laws will serve as "guidesfor individual conduct of such a sort as to keepthe individual free from displeasing action of thecourts as they administer...
...second chapter, Souter turns thespotlight on critics of positivism, and assessesthe natural law doctrine to which they adhere. Byexamining the theory's prominent writings, Souterconcludes that these theorists unknowingly agreewith Holmes on the four basic characteristics oflaw...
...Brodeur who first brought Slesin's work to widespread public attention. Much of the information in Brodeur's influential book Currents of Death was gleaned from the files of Microwave News. In a chapter titled "Watchdog" he describes Slesin's unrelenting coverage of the landmark studies linking low-level electromagnetic fields to the increased incidence of miscarriage, birth defects and various forms of cancer, especially brain tumors and leukemia. In the July 9 issue of the New Yorker, Brodeur returned to the subject with a detailed story about a cancer cluster in Guilford, Conn. Over a period of 20 years...