...even though I don't have to take the SAT. Here is an excerpt from a rare Times article with which I am in agreement:
Law is almost entirely dependent on analogies. In my first year of law school, my contracts professor, Gerald Frug, said something brilliant in its simplicity: "All things are alike in some ways and different in other ways." It was a warning that for the next three years, we would hear endless arguments that a case must be decided a particular way because a previous case or a statute required it. The two cases, or the case and the statute, would always be alike in some ways and different in others - and law school was really about arguing whether the similarities or the differences were more important.
Nowhere are analogies more central than in politics. When Karl Marx wanted to arouse the workers of the world, he compared the proletariat's condition to slavery and, in "The Communist Manifesto," urged them to throw off their figurative chains. When Roosevelt argued for a balanced budget, he put it in homespun terms. "Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns," he said. "But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse."
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---Katie
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