Professor Tribe considers the accuracy, appropriateness, and possible dangers of utilizing mathematical methods in the legal process, first in the actual conduct of civil and criminal trials, and then in designing procedures for the trial system as a whole. He concludes that the utility of mathematical methods for these purposes has been greatly exaggerated. Even if mathematical techniques could significantly enhance the accuracy of the trial process, Professor Tribe also shows that their inherent conflict with other important values would be too great to allow their general use.
Remember these things lost; and under the vaulting roof of the cathedral burn a candle to the memory.' 9. Id. at 451. 10. Id. at 451, 453. Thus, when Roland Barthes saw in plastic "the stuff of alchemy" and in its ubiquity the message that "the whole world can be plasticized," he foretold more than he could have known. R. BARTHES, MYTHOLOGIES 97-99 (A. Layers transl. 1972). 11. The virtues of AstroTurf are amply extolled in Monsanto's advertising: At last, the work-free poolsidel Simply install 'Round-the-Home AstroTurf. .. it gives your poolside the look of lush grass, right up to the water's edge. Besides being bright, beautiful, durable and fade resistant, 'Round-the-Home AstroTurf is also easy to maintain-simply wash it with a hose .... Monsanto Co. advertisement (on file with the Yale Law Journal). 12. Press release from Hyatt Regency San Francisco, May 8, 1973 ("Along the south side of the lobby runs a 130-foot long rock-lined 'babbling brook,' backed by a huge planter of shrubbery and live trees. Also located in this section of the lobby is a unique 'sound sculpture'. .. . Stereophonic speakers concealed in the foliage simulate the sound of songbirds flitting through the atrium.") (on file with the
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