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The desire by some in government to make drafting of laws precise is of a piece with the long history of objections to the diversity and uncertainty of language.
Stephen Fredman graduated from Point Loma High School in a large class of 900 students in 1966. I was there - that was my class too. Like many alums, Stephen left this "waspish, uncool Navy town" and he ended up teaching modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame for 37 years.…