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24 Oct 2010, 2:00 pm
Over the summer I was in GU Library looking up something else (to do with Thucydides, for an access course I was teaching part-time, if I remember) when I came across the title ‘Pericles and the Plumber’. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 6:27 am
Schott, Kimberly Ann Elliott dug up a very early example from ancient Greece, where Pericles issued economic sanctions against the Megarians. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 12:32 am
In the indictment, page 5 -- (click here for a copy) -- the government alleges that on May 9, Balducci approached Lackey about a bribe and delivered the now famous "where the bodies are buried" speech, admittedly not on a par with Pericles' funeral oration for eloquence, but it, like Pericles' declamation, could be said to capture the moment in its own unique way. [read post]
14 Jun 2024, 8:20 am
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to contribute to the development of an integrated and progressive jurisprudence and understanding on freedom of expression and information around the world. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 11:45 am
There is something about military power that intoxicates strongman leaders into thinking they can always win wars they hadn’t yet started, despite lessons from Pericles and past wars that should urge greater care. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 4:00 am
With humble and vague reference to Professor William Twining’s noted lecture and article, I suspect that while, in the law, the metaphorical plumbers vastly and obviously outnumber Pericles, the latter is more likely to recognise the value of investment in knowledge resources. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 5:33 am
Weeks after it, when I went back into the Library, partly to research some work I was doing and partly to read something, anything, that would make sense of the experience, my eye was caught by an article on plumbing and Pericles, an inaugural lecture by someone I’d not heard of, one W. [read post]
13 Feb 2025, 12:15 am
Como los boletines oficiales son aburridos, a veces leo sobre historia antigua, y en este caso, concretamente sobre la Grecia de tiempos de Pericles (s.V a.C.), de la que me llamaron la atención algunas cosas singularmente valiosas que tenía aquélla “democracia” de las que debería tomar buena nota nuestra joven democracia (eso sí, me apresuro a señalar que solo la décima parte de la población disfrutaba de la democracia… [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 12:54 pm
He observed that ‘staff might do better to teach less of the case method and more of the actual cases, the vast majority of which never see a court’; and he advocated the compilation of ‘”cases”, based on office records and experience, so that our students could learn from carefully reproduced real materials what actually goes on in law offices’.2 He also quoted a then-popular text on lawyers by Martin Mayer in which the author observed that US law schools were… [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 11:11 pm
New Zealand still has a good way to go to reach the level of communal intimacy of, say, ancient Athens, where a citizen might run into Sophocles or Pericles while doing his daily shopping in the agora, but it's far closer to this participatory ideal than are the mass societies of North America, Europe or Asia. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 12:55 pm
View the article hereOff topic, but does show the "Denial of Due Process" in the state of Georgia, which is also occurring across this country.09/21/2007 Political Corruption and Judicial Misconduct! [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 8:17 am
In this respect, therefore, the ancient Greek praise for Pericles might well apply to Pai:He did not so much follow as lead the people because he framed not his words to please them like one who is gaining power by unworthy means but was able and dared on the strength of high character even to brave their anger by contradicting their will.On a more personal note, "Uncle Vasanth, [read post]
2 May 2022, 4:36 pm
On May 2, 2022, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen spoke at the dedication ceremony for newly installed First Amendment tablet at the National Constitution Center donated by the Freedom Forum. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 3:06 am
Asalto a la Justicia) y agradezco a Luis Alfredo, compañero y amigo, el tiempo y energías empleadas en escribir este ensayo para devolver a la Justicia la venda de la imparcialidad, que la política le arrebata, con la admirable obsesión propia de Pericles por enseñar a los atenienses a ser demócratas y justos. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 2:56 pm
Pericles of Ancient Athens might not recognize the political leaders today, but he would recognize the average Greek. [read post]
24 Sep 2024, 1:34 pm
(Funeral Oration of Pericles)In that respect ot might be useful to compare this speech with those delivered in 2023 (Remarks by President Biden Before the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly | New York, NY), and those delivered in 2022 (Remarks by President Biden Before the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly), both of which also follow below. [read post]
