Mr Ackerman also analyses the Supreme Court's record since the attacks, which he sees as mixed, especially on the writ of habeas corpus, and he proposes a reasonable post-disaster plan on government continuity.

ECONOMIST: Civil liberties

Morris Lapidus's hotels were loved by, or at least charmed, almost everyone except writers on architecture, who saw them as a blasphemous assault on the holy writ of austere functionality.

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In the federal system, severe restrictions have been imposed on the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a common law doctrine predating the U.S. Constitution by several centuries, which allows the wrongly convicted to attack their trials and verdicts.

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The writ lodged in Belfast High Court on Monday alleged that Facebook had been "guilty of negligence" and had created "a risk of sexual and physical harm" to the child.

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In the current economic crisis, a lot of economists have wondered if what we have going on is the marshmallow experiment writ large.

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In seeking to balance the supposed necessity of finality against the obvious need to protect the innocent from all-too-frequent errors, the case probes the viability and scope of the constitutionally-protected writ of habeas corpus, the procedural device for reviewing otherwise final judgments based on newly-discovered evidence.

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Medieval Europe's map makers did not suppose that they knew the exact co-ordinates of Paradise, but they wanted to show that it was indeed on Earth, as holy writ and the church declared.

ECONOMIST: Modern man knows where he stands. His map tells him