Every little thing beatles

Tomorrow I will be at an event in the Guildhall in Londonderry to mark the 50th anniversary of civil rights. Given that I was not born in 1968, I have been examining the three Northern Ireland daily newspapers from October of that year.Different staring points are used for the start of the Troubles, such as the killing of John Patrick Scullion in June 1966, or the civil rights march in Duke Street, Londonderry of October 5 1968, or the Burntollet Bridge incident of January 1969, or the increase in killings and arrival of the British Army that summer.It was sobering therefore to begin my research with the October 1, 1968 editions of the Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and News Letter.You get a view into a bustling and what must then have seemed very modern world.All three papers (of 10 to 16 broadsheet pages per day, equivalent to 20 to 32 pages of a tabloid edition) are beginning to resemble big 2018 newspapers in a way that the grey papers of the 1950s did not.There is local and … [Read more...] about There was little sense of Northern Ireland being on the brink ahead of key 1968 civil rights march

Reading Law, that we change the term "originalism" to "historicism." A scholar in England had suggested that we might use that term in preference to originalism, which had long since become a lightning rod in legal language. It's another "ism" of the kind John Lennon lampooned in "Give Peace a Chance." (Citing Lennon was no help to me at all, naturally: Justice Scalia didn't like the Beatles.) The word originalism even sounds like the much-discredited "creationism," which is faux science.Nino (the affectionate nickname he insisted on) was furious at me. “I’ve spent my whole judicial career calling it originalism, and if I were to change it now, I’d look foolish.”“But originalism is a snarl-word for some people, Nino, and it may hurt us.”“Well then maybe you’ve made a grave mistake throwing in with me.” He hung up the phone on me—the first and only time that ever happened in our 10-year writing partnership.Thirty minutes later … [Read more...] about Bryan Garner’s tribute to his friend and co-author Antonin Scalia

John Gibeaut, an award-winning senior writer for the ABA Journal, has died of cancer. He was 61 years old.An honors law graduate of Florida State University, he worked for well-known newspapers in that state and the storied City News Bureau of Chicago before earning his law degree in 1995. He then returned to Chicago to join the ABA Journal staff in 1996. One of the magazine’s top writers, Gibeaut was a colorful character known for calling it as he saw it and writing compelling stories about complex legal topics.“John’s incisive voice on legal issues has long been a strength of the ABA Journal. He was a complex person and a genuine character, and his passion for journalism will be missed,” said Allen Pusey, the magazine’s editor and publisher.His writing was clear, succinct and powerful, wrote the American Society of Business Publication Editors when Gibeaut won a Stephen Barr Award in 2005. “The judges were impressed…with the writer’s … [Read more...] about John Gibeaut, award-winning ABA Journal writer, dies of cancer at 61

John Gibeaut, an award-winning senior writer for the ABA Journal, has died of cancer. He was 61 years old.A 1995 honors law graduate of Florida State University, he worked for well-known newspapers in that state and the storied City News Bureau of Chicago before earning his law degree. He then returned to Chicago to join the ABA Journal staff in 1996. One of the magazine’s top writers, Gibeaut was a colorful character known for calling it as he saw it and writing compelling stories about complex legal topics.“John’s incisive voice on legal issues has long been a strength of the ABA Journal. He was a complex person and a genuine character, and his passion for journalism will be missed,” says Allen Pusey, the magazine’s editor and publisher.Gibeaut’s writing was clear, succinct and powerful, wrote the American Society of Business Publication Editors when he won a Stephen Barr Award in 2005. “The judges were impressed … with the … [Read more...] about Award-winning reporter John Gibeaut dies at 61

LINCOLN — For his first group interview as a Nebraska player, Tristan Gebbia had his helmet and two footballs at his feet and his back against a wall. Packed into a second-floor space of the Hawks Championship Center, reporters traipsed over camera stands and maneuvered around a kiosk to press in.“This is a special moment in time,” Gebbia said at one point.Four NU quarterbacks talked after Tuesday’s practice, and they might as well have been the Beatles. One, Patrick O’Brien, declined to stop, walking over the skyway that connects the practice field and the locker room. But the rest — Gebbia, Noah Vedral, Adrian Martinez and Andrew Bunch — stood for as long as questions were asked. It was a bit of a media circus for a spring practice. But new coach Scott Frost tends to be a kingmaker of quarterbacks — see Marcus Mariota at Oregon and McKenzie Milton at Central Florida — so the spotlight burns a little brighter for these five, … [Read more...] about Bright lights shine on Husker quarterbacks, with each one competing to lead NU offense