Leiter Reports 2008-07-26
Friday Poem: "Olympiad"
Olympiad Here in America damp as a sump I'm pleading my case to a jury of walls searching for someone friendly to gloom who will swear I am guilty whatever the charge Under the official Olympic sun Mammon is stroking...
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- Friday Poem: "In Time of War, 1942"
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- Friday Poem: "Used Book Sale"
- Kelsen's Relative Neglect in Anglophone Jurisprudence
- Light Posting the Next Few Days...
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- Friday Poem: "Julian Sorel"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, Penultimate Draft
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- Friday Poem: "Poems-I"
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- Friday Poem: "The End of Mythology"
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- Friday Poem: "No Hope"
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- More Thoughts on the Churchill Case
- Friday Poem: "UT Library"
- New URL for my Legal Philosophy Blog--Plus a New Paper on "Explaining Theoretical Disagreement"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, 3rd Draft
- Nietzsche Blog
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- Friday Poem: "Comforted Not Free (Valery)"
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- Summary of Major Faculty Moves and Tenure-Track Hires for 2006-2007, 1st Draft
- James Rachels (1941-2003) Website
- Friday Poem: 'Very Well, I Will Be Forgotten"
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- Friday Poem: "This Special Time"
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