… and outlines such seemingly Byzantine subjects as the common law rules of pleading and procedure during the … in the present-day region of Maine, to sophisticated studies of particular aspects of colonial law. In this latter … du livre. As one of the volume’s editors, David D. Hall, points out in his introduction, American historians have …
Reporting
… herself on a tree root while fleeing an angry elephant; she died soon after. “But she was old and fat.” “The elephant?” … our queries about elephant sightings with waves toward all points of the compass. At a Tuareg camp of flimsy beehive … Mali Sahara elephants endangered animals water shortage 4-26 By Anthony Ham Photography by Carlton Ward, Jr. …
… Grand Canyon. By V. Sackville-West. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. Primer for Combat. By Kay Boyle. Simon, and … and require no praising; works of no merit at all will die of themselves, they require no killing.” Yet in the same … in the book, but the objective scenes and incidents are also well handled, save that too many are crowded upon the …
… in Paris during 1919, and during that year and the next embodied in several treaties: the Treaty of Versailles with the … gold marks should be paid by 1921 and forty billions by 1926. This treaty was resisted and attacked by the Germans … peace had been imposed; that contrary to the Fourteen Points of President Wilson, which the Germans had accepted …
… William M. Robinson’s book. “Justice in Grey” is the outcome of years of intelligent, meticulous research, and it is … basically the old Federal Constitution with controversial points cleared up, and with those features which had given … The distractions of war and personal feuds in Congress were also factors in the failure to organize the Supreme Court. …
Essays
… The Lady & The Generals Aung San Suu Kyi, symbolic leader of Burma's National … as it’s likely better known, Burma) is an almost impossibly complicated place. And the woman at the center of its … fact, when I’d arrived at sunset at the edge of town, a soldier had—at first—leveled an AK-47 on me as I walked in a …