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On the Pony Express Trail
The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of proportion to its actual role in the history of the West. The system of transporting mail to California by a relay of lone riders on swift horses ran less than eighteen months in 1860-1861 and failed by every measure of success. Nevertheless, it has become the most iconic symbol of the West. Scott Alumbaugh was so taken with the Pony Express that at age 62 he bikepacked 1,400 miles of the trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Salt Lake City, Utah. Alumbaugh’s journey took five weeks on a route that was mostly off-road, sometimes through remote territory. Along the way he came to see the celebrated Pony Express as a collecti...
The Language of Law School
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
Aphrodite in Jeans
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Will Kill for Food
Fiction. April 30, 1992: the day after a jury returned not guilty verdicts for four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. Protests in Los Angeles have spread into a city-wide riot. People are being killed. Korean-owned businesses, like Dean's uncle Jun's store, are being looted and burned. A gangbanger is using the cover of the riots to take over Koreatown businesses like Jun's by any means necessary. For three days, Dean, Jun, and Ron, a homeless Gulf War veteran, hole up in Jun's store and fight to stay alive in the center of the deadliest civil disturbance in U.S. history.
California Lawyer
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Los Angeles Lawyer
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