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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.


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LAUREN CONRAD They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...
JOSEPH CONRAD He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...
JOSEPH CONRAD Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
JOSEPH CONRAD When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antar...
CONRAD ANKER Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement o...
CONRAD ANKER All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contai...
PETER CONRAD