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Bork, Robert Heron was born on March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry Philip and Elizabeth (Kunkle) Bork.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...5. peace concluded the year before. The message was received with professions of friendliness. Two days after, about noon, on the seventh of June, a concerted attack was made by parties of Indians upon both the settlements. The destruction of the " New Village" was complete. Every dwelling was burned. The greater number of June 7. ATTACK ON THE SETTLEMENTS. 195 the adult inhabitants had gone forth that day as chap.1i. usual to their field work upon the outlying,663. farms, leaving some of the women, with the little children, at home. Three of the men, who had doubtless returned to protect them, were killed; and eight women, with twenty-six children, were taken prisoners. Among these were the families of our Walloons: the wife and three children of Louis du Bois, the two children of Matthew Blanchan, and Anthony Crispel's wife and child. The rest of the people, those at work in the fields, and those who could escape from the village, fled to the neighboring woods, and in the course of the afternoon made their way to Wiltwyck, or to the redoubt at the mouth of Esopus creek. Meanwhile, the attack at Wiltwyck had been less successful. Parties of Indians had entered the village in the morning, carrying maize and beans to sell, and under this pretense, had distributed themselves in the different houses; when suddenly a number of men on horseback came dashing through the mill-gate, shouting, "The Indians have destroyed the New Village!" At once, the savages already within the place began their work of havoc. Twelve houses were burned, and but for a timely change of wind the Brave entire settlement would have been consumed. watwyck. Some of the Indians, seizing the women and children, hastened away with them into the forest: whilst others, stati...
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Judge Bork shares a personal account of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination as well as his view on politics versus the law.
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With his inimitable combination of outrage and wit, Judge Bork has written the definitive account of America on the eve of the millennium. Ranging through every aspect of our culture and society-sex and race, crime and welfare, religion and the courts-his book is not only a comprehensive description of our condition; it is a profound analysis of its ideological and historical roots.
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In general, courts have been activist in opposing majority views on such matters as sexual practices, secularism versus religion, rights of speech and expression and feminism. This judicial activism appears to impinge on the legitimate domains of the executive and legislative branches of government and constitutes the judicialization of politics and morals. According to Bork, a number of courts tend to act in this activist fashion. As well, international tribunals appear to exceed their jurisdiction, posing a threat to national sovereignty just as the national courts threaten democratic government. This activism is more than a threat; Bork argues that both sovereignty and self-government have already been seriously damaged. Coercing Virtue attempts to account for the phenomenon of why so may courts in democratic nations behave in an imperialistic manner and why the results almost always appear to advance the liberal political and cultural agenda.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet. This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors have received from students and instructors since the first edition was published in 1995. As a result, they have updated the race, class, and gender section, created new sections on coding programs and revising first drafts, and provided new examples of working notes. An essential tool for budding social scientists, the second edition of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes will be invaluable for a new generation of researchers entering the field.
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Bork, Robert Heron was born on March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh. Son of Harry Philip and Elizabeth (Kunkle) Bork.
Bachelor, University Chicago, 1948. Juris Doctor, University Chicago, 1953. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Creighton University, 1975.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Notre Dame Law School, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters, Wilkes-Barre College, 1976. Juris Doctor (honorary), Brooklyn Law School, 1984.
Doctor of Theology, DeSales School Theology, 1990. Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Adelphi University, 1990.
Associate, then partner Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, 1955-1962. Associate professor Yale Law School, 1962-1965, professor law, 1965-1975, on leave, 1973-1975. Solicitor general United States Department Justice, Washington, 1973-1977, acting attorney general, 1973-1974.
Chancellor Kent professor law Yale Law School, 1977-1979, Alexander M. Bickel professor public law, 1979-1981. Partner Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, 1981-1982. Judge The United States of America Court Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit), 1982—1988.
Resident scholar American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, 1977, adjunct scholar, 1977-1982, John M. Olin scholar in legal studies, 1988-1999, senior fellow, 2000—2003. Distinguished fellow Hudson Institute, since 2003. Professor law Ave Maria School Law, 2000—2003.
Member, trustee Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1973-1978. Nominated for position associate justice Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1987, confirmation denied by United States Senate. Tad and Dianne Taube Distinguished visiting fellow Hoover Institution, 2003.
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Author: The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself, 1978, second edition, 1993, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, 1990, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, 1996, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, 2002, A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Value, A Time To Speak, 2008.
With United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1945-1946, 50-52. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Federalist Society (co-chairman, board trustees).
Married Claire Davidson, June 15, 1952 (deceased 1980). Children: Robert Heron, Charles E., Ellen E. Married Mary Ellen Pohl, October 30, 1982.