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April 29 2014
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer? Looks like Niebuhr after all
“John Maynard Keynes is said to have made a wonderful comment when he was accused of inconsistency of opinions over time,” Fred Shapiro...
December 13 2010
Non-witch, non-Yalie, but tops in the year’s quotations
Christine O’Donnell famously “didn’t go to Yale.” Even more famously, the defeated Senate candidate from Delaware is “not a witch” — and with that...
March 20 2012
Thumbs up?
The phrase “rule of thumb” has become a feminist taboo because, we’ve been told, it derives from a legal ruling that a man could beat his wife with...
December 20 2011
The 99 percent becomes #1 on the quote parade
Feeding the 99 percent: at Occupy New Haven -- still going strong on the Green -- Yale World Fellows Chrishan Thuraisingham (left) and Marcelo...
September 24 2015
Legal advice
“Law is a living growth, not a changeless code.” The inscription above the Grove Street entrance to the Sterling Law Building offers...
November 28 2011
Still stuffed? Chew on this.
Enough with the turkey already! Let’s talk about burgers. Did Louis’ Lunch really invent the hamburger sandwich? Fred Shapiro reports in “You Can...
March 8 2011
Half bat, half man—all Yalie
I’m not a “true” Batman fan. I loved the TV show, watching the reruns after school almost every day in junior high school, when I was just old...
January 24 2011
Bartlett’s familiar — but should he be?
Illustration: Michael Gillette Voltaire? Fitzgerald? Yogi Berra? Guess again: some of their most famous quotations are actually distaff in origin....
March 18 2010
Library of the dolls
Photo: Christopher Cappoziello/The New York Times If that looks like a bobblehead doll of the late U.S. Supreme Court justice, William Rehnquist, it...
December 15 2009
‘You lie!’
That’s number four out of Fred Shapiro’s top ten quotes of the year. The Yale law librarian — and our own “You can quote them” columnist — is...
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