By Harold Henderson
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My lawyer told the judge he had a passionate feeling that I had been wrongly charged, but he hadn’t formulated an argument or looked up any precedents. Student Lawyer (May) quotes local psychotherapist Benjamin Sells, author of The Soul of the Law: “Depression and various psychological disturbances are very high in law students — much higher than in the general population. There is a deadening of the aesthetic sense through law school training, a weakening of the ability to perceive beauty. My hypothesis is that there is this passionate, almost animal connection to the world through the senses that gets set aside and actually degraded by accentuating the logical mind.”
Oops! Your comment here. Percentage of U.S. pregnancies that are unintentional, according to a recent U.S. Institute of Medicine study calling for research and product-liability reform for new contraceptive methods: nearly 60.
Things Republicans don’t want to know, gleaned from a recent news release from their sometime friends at the Cato Institute: “Eighty-five percent of the corporate welfare safety net survived the 1995 [congressional] budget process intact….Of the $19.5 billion budgeted for the 35 least defensible programs”–in which the authors include the Export-Import Bank, Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, and Army Corps of Engineers–“Congress cut just $2.8 billion in 1996.”
