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Title: CHINA'S RETREAT FROM EQUALITY: Income Distribution and Economic Transition.(Book Review)
Author: Shaoguang Wang
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Date: September 22, 2003
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Volume: 76
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The title of criminal defense lawyer Roy Black's first book alludes to the renowned legal dictionary, and the reference is appropriate: Black is beyond a reasonable doubt the definitive defense attorney. Considered among the best advocates for the accused in the United States, he has had clients that included William Kennedy Smith and Marv Albert. But in Black's Law, the former public defender and law professor recounts the strategies and tactics he employed to safeguard the freedom of four lesser-known clients: Luis Alvarez, Thomas Knight, Steve Hicks, and Fred De La Mata.
In "Alvarez" (Black refers to each of his four examples by case name), a Miami cop is put on trial for shooting an African American suspect with no previous criminal record, pitting Black against the office of Dade County state attorney Janet Reno, who desperately needed a conviction to avert widespread race riots. In "Knight," Black must convince a federal appeals court that an insane multiple killer was condemned to death row by the bad lawyering of his first four attorneys. In "Hicks," a young bartender finds himself charged with murder after his girlfriend dies of an accidental gunshot wound; Black defends him against incriminating circumstantial evidence and the cluster-bungling efforts of police investigators. And in "De La Mata," Black takes a break from the murder trials to work on a money-laundering case.
The aforementioned Black's Law Dictionary defines a defense attorney as "a [l]awyer who files appearance in behalf of defendant and represents such in civil or criminal case," but Roy Black's account underscores how such technical definitions fail to convey the essential role defense attorneys play in our adversarial system of justice. Black's Law is not just about four individual defendants, it's about the rights to which all defendants are entitled--and for which people like Roy Black fight--in a court of law. --Tim Hogan
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Roy Black is one of America's toughest and shrewdest criminal defense lawyers. Whether defending a wealthy celebrity or an indigent death row inmate, Black sees his job as doing whatever it takes to get his clients fair trials. In Black's Law, he takes us behind the scenes of four difficult and dangerous cases to reveal the legal strategies, no-holds-barred tactics and courtroom psychology he used to make sure his clients received every protection promised by the law.
Black's cases illustrate the life-and-death struggles that occur every day in our criminal courts. In Alvarez, Black has to convince a jury to put aside poisonous pre-trial publicity, the threat of a race riot and almost universal pressure for a conviction in order to keep a young Hispanic police officer out of jail for killing a young black hoodlum in the line of duty. In Knight, Black must contend with issues of class and race as he wages a four-year struggle to persuade federal appeals court judges to overturn the death sentence imposed on an insane, brutal killer because of the incompetence of his first lawyers. In Hicks, Black has to prove the innocence of a client who is his own worst enemy by convincing a jury that the police conducted a sloppy murder investigation. And in De La Mata, Black must persuade jurors to disregard the damaging testimony of admitted drug dealers who have plea-bargained for lesser sentences in order to save a former bank president caught in the crosshairs of a federal prosecutor waging his own relentless war on drugs.
At a time when the public and its elected officials are giving prosecutors and judges more power to put criminals behind bars, defense lawyers are often seen as being on the side of the bad guys. But Roy Black believes that when we chip away at the rights of the accused, we diminish our own rights as well. In our adversarial system, all too often the only person standing between a defendant and jail -- or the death penalty -- is the criminal defense lawyer.
In these accounts, Black demonstrates in riveting detail how a defense attorney must investigate criminal cases by sifting through evidence and preparing for trial. (It's like preparing for a war.) He shows us how the principles of law, cross-examination and evidence -- as well as careful jury selection and skillful use of expert witnesses -- can level the playing field to counter the enormous resources that state and federal prosecutors have at their disposal.
Black's Law reveals what really goes on in our criminal courts and makes resoundingly clear the crucial role that criminal defense lawyers play in safeguarding the basic right to a fair trial for all.
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Black's Law: A clinic on strategies and tactics. .......2007-09-05
Roy Black once said, "The kind of cases I handle are the ones people can't afford to lose." On the eve of yet another notorious public figure facing penitentiary chances, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis made the call, "Get me Roy Black." And why not? Mr. Black has attained legendary status as one of the top legal minds in the country. From his days battling in the PD's office in Miami to his rise as Miami's `super lawyer' , Black's deft handling of the media makes for a formidable one-two punch when you combine his PR skills with his presence in the courtroom. Francis knows he's in for the fight of his life. The government has tattooed crosshairs on his back for the last ten years, and he knows he's facing the end of his rope. Who wouldn't hire Black?
This book encapsulates all that is Roy Black. Delivering gut-wrenching stories of trench warfare, he said, "My cases are World War III to me. I don't take prisoners when I go to trial." Attorneys make their living through words. And this book is a testament to that. Written for the everyday man, the style of writing is brief, easy to read, and compelling. It's as if Black is masterfully telling his stories to a jury. And once again, he wins them over. Highly recommended.
Black's Law Is An Eye Opener.......2005-10-26
Do you sometimes wonder why anyone could possibly want to defend the scum, the losers, the obviusly-guilty-because-the newspapers-said-so? Well, if you think that way you will find a very good answer in this book. Roy Black describes four different cases which seemed impossible to defend, yet he did and did it well. He lets you in on what it's like to be on the defense side of the aisle. His writing style is smooth and flowing and each of the cases was so interesting I found it hard to put the book down. For me this was one of those books you can't help but read fast because it's fascinating, yet want to read slow so it lasts longer. For any True Crime genre fan, this is a MUST read.
Excellent Step by Step Understanding of Casework.......2005-01-21
I really enjoyed "Black's Law." He tells four different seemingly story-like narratives about four different cases. He discusses in detail every aspect of trying a case from research to voire dire. If you are interested in either legal strategy or just in a good story, you should read this book.
Legal Education for all.......2004-01-18
A great book. Written by a expert in communication. Each case brought you into the defense, you believe in the actions brought forward to give not only a legal defense by our constitution but to see a inocent person never is incarcerated,if that ever comes to pass. I would hope Mr. Black will write more, he is able to take a very complicated subject and break it down to a laymans understanding.
Gripping real life drama & civics lesson rolled into one.......2002-09-17
I found this non-fiction book to be as captivating a read - and frankly, much better written - than many of the fictional legal thrillers and courtroom dramas filling the bookstore shelves these days. Add to that the fact that this book offers great insight into our criminal justice system and the import role of the criminal defense attorney in it, and you have a book that is, in my opinion, a must-read.
All that being said, I think that perhaps what impressed me most about this book is what is not in it - celebrity name dropping. Black is clearly set apart from some of his colleagues in the high profile defense lawyer set by his choices of cases to include in this book. Having represented a number of "household names" in cases which received considerable media attention, Black writes in his book about none of them, choosing instead cases in which he represented people outside of the public eye and who came from a variety of walks of life. He should be commended for this and his book is rendered all the more impactful by the lack of the "tabloid" element.
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"When you try to push a heavy sofa, you disturb the entire gravitationally entangled cosmos. No wonder it's so hard to move."
Now that's good science writing--punchy, direct, and immediately meaningful to the reader's life. K.C. Cole, the Leonardo da Vinci of science writers, has taken her great, out-of-print Sympathetic Vibrations and revised, expanded, and updated it to create an entirely new book, First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life. Her enthusiasm for science as an intensely meaningful endeavor comes through on each page: here is someone who not only thinks about the world around her but gets others to do the same.
In addition to her chapter on forces (quoted above), Cole covers the quantum world, relativity, and universal patterns, among other fundamental topics. Throughout she manages to show the reader the power of science to shape our dreams, religion, and poetry, as well as our bridges, dams, and highways. Conversations with such luminaries as Richard Feynman and Frank Oppenheimer enlighten us on both the form and substance of what was once known as "natural philosophy" and rehumanize this field too often recognized for its dizzying abstractions. Despite the enormity of its role in our lives, science should not be feared. Instead, we should keep working on new translations of its mysteries; with scribes like Cole, the work becomes much easier for us all. --Rob Lightner
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For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.
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On Cloud 9!.......2004-03-07
The most poetic, clearest, tour of modern physics I've ever read. Cole covers everything from the use of metaphor in science to quantum mechanics and general relativity in a way that makes you just want more, more, more.
Outstanding Exposition of Modern Physics.......2002-07-05
...There is no way an author can convey the enthusiasm of science to people with no scientific background whatsoever... However, for the average (and above) person interested in how science informs everyday life, this is one of the best books to own. It is particularly effective if you have a college background in the physical sciences or math. Below I review some of the stronger, as well as a few weaker, points of the book.
First, K.C. Cole effectively conveys the spirit of science in a nonmathematical (i.e. more visual and instinctive) way. It is a shame that almost all physics books are written so informally that the reader has to labor hard to enjoy the process (as well as results) of physics. Miss Cole, on the other hand, brings home in plain language the beauty of science. She is not afraid to use everyday examples to make physics tangeable to the average person.
For example, she uses the analogy of the gears in a car (reverse, first, second... fifth) to explain that quantum mechanics is not that foreign afterall. I think her very human approach to science is desirable and effective. When people see how science affects every aspect of their daily lives, they WILL care about it. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates started out as a natural scientist, but eventually became a philosopher because he saw that the nature of the human life matters as much as physical science. And (at leat two and a half millenia ago) it was not clear that science could lead to ethics. The scientists that Cole has chosen to convey the language of science to the general public (the Ancient Greeks, the Oppenheimer brothers, her "friend the physicist" Weisskopf, Feynman, Einstein, Gould, Sir James Jeans, and others) were multifaceted personalities who cared deeply about conveying science to the average person, as well as the way in which science affects human lives.
Compared to heavyweight physicists such as Brian Greene or Michio Kaku, K.C. Cole is even more passionate about the role of science, yet does not avoid using rigorous science when appropriate. The book (rightly so) focuses mostly on modern physics. Quantum physics is covered in detail spread out in several chapters. This is useful because there is no other branch of physics that leads more naturally to philosophy.
While this is not a "how things work" book, it uses selective examples to point out how much more we now know than our predecessors. She points out that quantum physics actually explains the stability and composition of the world, or ts "grainness" (i.e. classical physics allows for an infinite number of atomic configurations -- elements -- but life can only propagate if there is a limited set of elements which can be reused). And the sections that deal with light ... are especially lucid, relevant, and engaging.
Now, some of the weaker points in the book include minor errors in scientific reasoning... (However, in) spite of these minor defects, the book has the three important Es: it is enlightening, entertaining, engaiging. The book is definitely worth reading or recommending to scientifically bent people. K.C. Cole conveys the universal portrait of the scientist who deeply cares not only about his/her research but also about making it available for intellectual enjoyment to the masses...
Philosophy of Science.......2002-03-02
K.C. Cole in her profession as a journalist has set herself to write science for the general public. With an animated and direct prose, use of analogies, and extensively quoting from a wide array of distinguished scientists, Cole brings physics into everyday life. This a book that my seem superficial to the eyes of readers who are seeking in-depth scientific data, formulas and theories, and they might be right in thinking so. For Cole the idea that science is inseparable from philosophy is a theme that pervades her book. Her purpose therefore, is to share and explain the most basic concepts of modern physics with those who are still having trouble in grasping the concepts of gravity, elementary particles, matter, space, time, quantum mechanics, and bring forth how present day physics stands with respect to elementary philosophical issues.
Consequently, we are faced with the fact that relativity and quantum theory have completely changed the way we think about everything from time and space to energy and matter. Very little in science is actually wrong and nothing in science is ever completely right. Scientific truths are better regarded as relationships holding in some limited domain. Things must be learned only to be unlearned again, or more likely, to be corrected. The philosophical perspective shows that there are many windows to reality and human science no longer experiences the world through our rather "narrow" senses. Present day physics forces us (whether we like it or not) to accept complementarity: because one view is right, the opposite view isn't necessarily wrong! The very reality of the order in random events has totally altered the meaning of our notion of causes. We are left with the further and perhaps more fundamental paradox that chance follows laws!
When science looks into the future the vision is of how much needs to be further learned and explored in an open realm where dogmas have no place. This is what makes this unpretentious science book worth reading.
HORRIBLE.......2001-08-24
This book was the most boring book I have ever had to read in my entire life. It basically put me to sleep. If i didn't have to read this book for school, I would have trashed it the second I started to read it. This book could not be more boring. True, physics is a hard subject to write about with at least a little part being boring, but BORING should be the title of this book. All i would like to say is: K.C.Cole being a BestSeller author MY A$$
Interesting enough, but nothing special.......2001-05-22
This book tries to explain the wonders of modern physics, from relativity to quarks, for average readers interested in science. Cole has a very lively writing style for a science writer, yet somehow the physics in this book never really came alive or intrigued me, as it has in other science writing.
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