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Leadership and the People. News for Working People. To experience homelessness is to be in a place no one wants to be - including, and especially, the person in it. No one wants to trade places with a homeless person; and no one aspires to be without shelter. Helping professionals and volunteers inevitably confirm this when they focus on strategies of recovery and techniques of escape. And a little contact might palliate the relentless isolation.

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I Like New York in June. If you are the sort who listens to others’ conversations, or even have a few of your own, you may have noticed how many sentences begin with “I like.” Why is it we so frequently assume the one thing another person wants to know is whether we like something or not? If the conversation is about a movie, food, or a trip to the Bahamas, why wouldn’t some sort of description be more to the point? 8220;I like.” is, indeed, the final truth of the matter in the gloomy suppositi...Whateve...

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Al Katz, State University of New York, Buffalo. The world in which we live holds to the common belief that it is possible for one person to speak for another. This essay is an attempt to explore the mysteries of this faith. II In the Beginning: Hobbes. III In the Old Days. Notes and ‘Sources’. VII Corruption, Immunity, Discretion. VIII State, Corporation, Union. Movements of the curious historical figures dominating the analysis. In any event, techniques that determine the tone or character of the di...

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Somehow over the course of our national history. Came to be synonymous with good, and. With bad. Private schools are good, private golf clubs are good, and private bathrooms are good. Private beaches seem universally preferable to public ones though sand, water, and air may be indistinguishable. By extension, public swimming pools are bad, public hospitals used to be bad before they came to be called not-for-profits, public telephones might be a necessary evil but definitely are not preferred. So far the...

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Al Katz, State University of New York, Buffalo. I-a Law, Norm, Rights. I-b Realism, Formalism, Normativity. II Difference, Dispersion, Pluralism. III Similarity, Difference, Adjudication. IV Power, Knowledge, Jurisprudence. I (a) Law, Norm, Rights. 1 As a diagnostics. The inscription of delinquency and deviation in spaces otherwise occupied by simple difference? Foucault's theory of the norm draws a distinction similar to that between Aristotelian and Galelian science: the former grounded in a natural re...

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A Good One of Those. At the moment advertising sits at the intersection of both our political system of exchange and our commercial one. In the former, money flows into the systems through campaign contributions and flows out through campaign expenditures, the bulk of which is for advertising. As more direct forms of influence are curtailed, this flow becomes crucial for the insertion of influence into politics. What are we to make of this?

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Al Katz • Prof. of law SUNY, Buffalo, 1969-1989 (ret.).

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And it is about THE BOMB to the extent that the best case for dropping it rests on the moral claim that it is better to incinerate cities full of THEIR civilians than to lose armies full of OUR young soldiers. It is an uncomfortably ambiguous way to end a war of legendary cleanth, yet it is the best we can do. Al Katz • Prof. of law SUNY, Buffalo, 1969-1989 (ret.).