June 16, 2008

Let's Just Be Friends

By JULIA GOODE

I'm getting dangerously close to feeling old — well, maybe not old, but definitely not young. When I began my teaching career, I wasn't that much older than my law-school students. But the gap widens with each passing year, and I am definitely minding.

I've heard other professors express the same sentiment. You tell a joke in class about an event that seems as if it happened last week — the Iran-contra hearings or the O.J. Simpson trial — and you get

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