on a charge of
espionage.
In his letter he accused the highest levels of the
French Army of obstruction of justice and antisemitism for having wrongfully
convicted Dreyfus.
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Some titles are attention grabbing because they are clever. Howard Gardner,
the distinguished Harvard professor of psychology wrote a ground breaking
book proposing that intelligence is not a simple concept with a single
measurement. Instead people have multiple intelligences. His book was entitled
Frames of Mind.
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Some titles are clever because they involve a play on words that grabs
attention. One example concerns the famous torts case of the Wagon Mound,
a well known case in the law of negligence.
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The Wagon Mound was a
freighter which was moored at Morts Dock in the port of Sydney. The Wagon
Mound carelessly discharged a large quantity of furnace oil into the water,
which mixed with cotton waste floating on the surface. This mixture of oil and
cotton floated over to a
shipyard, where it was ignited by molten metal from
welding performed on the side of a ship. The resulting fire seriously damaged
a
wharf and two ships. Here the fire was caused by the combination of four
events –
the oil is being discharged into the water, the cotton waste is being
caught in the oil slick, the waste is floating to the shipyard and the molten metal
is falling onto the oil sodden cotton waste. One of the leading articles which
analysed the case was entitled “Trouble on Oiled Waters”.
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Opening Words
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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Well crafted opening words can grab a reader’s attention. One of the classics
in English literature with its high themes and starling contrasts comes from the
opening words of Dicken’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of
times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
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On the 100th anniversary of Zola's article one of France's Roman Catholic
daily paper, apologised for its antisemitic
editorials during the Dreyfus Affair.
The newspaper’s name, most appropriately, was La Croix (the cross).
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(1983) Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
New York: Basic Books
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There were in fact two cases arising from the same incident - Wagon
Mound (No 1), Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering
Co Ltd
[1961] 1 All ER 404; [1961] AC 388; [1961] 2 WLR 126; (PC), and
Wagon Mound (No 2), Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Miller Steamship Co
(1966), [1966] 2 All ER 709; [1967] 1 AC 617; [1966] 3 WLR 498 (PC).
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RWM Dias “Trouble on Oiled Waters: Problems of The Wagon Mound (No
2)“ (1967) 25 Cambridge Law Journal 62, 80
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Genesis 1:1
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