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Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain’d his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But…

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Quæ quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas Nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur neque fit lætum neque amabile quicquam, Te sociam studeo scribendis versibus esse Quos ego de…

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As my friend John Barrett reminds me, on this day in 1940, Robert H. Jackson, perhaps the nation’s greatest attorney general, gave one of his most important speeches. Jackson had…

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Is the Justice Department the single most corrupt agency on the Washington horizon? True, when it comes to the pettiest forms of corruption, such as the corruptly influenced award of…

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Unos principios de crédito sirven de despertar la curiosidad, no de empeñar el objecto. Mejor sale quando la realidad excede al concepto y es más de lo que se creyó.…

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When CBS News’s 60 Minutes put out its report “The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman” (for which I was repeatedly interviewed) one sole affiliate, the Northern Alabama station WHNT, suffered mysterious…

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I scanned the Sunday talk shows and was amazed, even by the normally lowbrow standards of these programs, at the infantile level of discussion about Iraq. In concept, the Sunday…

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So Lone seem the hills; there is no one in sight there. But whence is the echo of voices I hear? The rays of the sunset pierce slanting the forest,…

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Those things by which the world is bound, By those very things may its bondage be released, But the world is deluded and knows not this truth, And without this…

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The Architectural Digest special issue on the homes of Karl Rove may still be a few years off. There will of course be plenty to cover. His home in the…

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Was ist Vollkommenheit? – Wir haben von Natur gewisse Kräfte und Fähigkeiten in uns, die wir fühlen. . . Um den wahren Begriff der Vollkommenheit zu erlangen, müssen wir in…

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In Karl Rove’s playbook, no turf is free from politics. The more sacred and by tradition the more beyond the political fray, the better suited for partisan grist. National security,…

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On Thursday, Michael Mukasey spoke about corruption during a lunchtime speech to a friendly but also pointedly skeptical audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. As readers of this…

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great:…

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These chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want…

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Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton will appear this evening at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, 5:30 Central time on Air America’s Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the Siegelman case, and then…

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On January 28, 2008, the Committee Against Torture adopted General Comment 2 (CAT/C/GC/2), an important and persuasive reaffirmation of basic values of the Convention Against Torture, starting with one that…

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Par l’art seulement nous pouvons sortir de nous, savoir ce que voit un autre nous pouvons sortis de nous, savoir ce que voit un autre de cet univers qui n’est…

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Today was a news double-header for former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman. In an order issued by the Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Siegelman’s request to be set free pending…

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A dervish knocked at a house to ask for a piece of dry bread, or moist, it didn’t matter. “This is not a bakery,” said the owner. “Might you have…

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My view is, in the first place, that experience (by which I mean the single and indivisible whole within experiencing and what is experienced have their place) is always a…

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The very reason that I speak from the grave is that I want the satisfaction of sometimes saying everything that is in me instead of bottling the pleasantest of it…

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In England of the seventeenth century, the Stuart monarchs gradually found the court system to be entirely too much of a bother. Of course, they would pick the judges and…

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“You speak of a certain philosophy, and a more or less occult one it may be, and hint of its bearing upon practical life; pray, tell me, if the study…

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If one single act marked the rise of the educated elites against Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf, then it was the defiance of his rule that came from senior judges and…

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Emerge tu recuerdo de la noche en que estoy. El río anuda al mar su lamento obstinado. Abandonado como los muelles en el alba. Es la hora de partir, oh…

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be…

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William Faulkner, “The Old People,” Harper’s, Sept. 1940. William Faulkner, “Pantaloon in Black,” Harper’s, Oct. 1940. What do two short stories by William Faulkner published by Harper’s in the fall…

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