Presents findings from a sociological and psychological study of rumor, gossip, and hearsay, showing that the distribution patterns of these communication forms closely parallel characteristics and rules of economic exchange, and that the consumption of rumor and gossip corresponds to the consumption of goods and services. Recommendations and guidelines for rumor control centers based on World War II clinics are presented.

This Article examines the requirements of testamentary capacity in the execution of wills, and the difficulties that courts face in determining a testator's intent. The author begins by describing the doctrine of testamentary capacity and explores its connection to the ideas of individualism. The author then examines the tests that courts have adopted for assessing testamentary capacity and argues that these tests have the potential to conflict with the idea that values are subjective. The author proceeds to illustrate how courts typically empathize with the testator, rather than focus on the testator's abstract ability to reason, and explores the relationship between the use of empathy and the premise of wills law. The author concludes that other doctrines of wills law depend more heavily on empathy than previously assumed and that the critical inquiry of a testator's intent can never be confidently resolved.

This Article is an examination and reassessment of Professors Berle and Means' seminal theory of the nature of the relationship between a/corporation, its shareholders, and its management. Because of its importance to modern corporate law,' this relationship is examined in the context of two recent corporate antitakeover defensive techniques: the creation of super common stock, and management's deliberate discrimination against suspected hostile shareholders.

Euripides, as Rene Girard observes of Shakespeare, "in the portrayal of certain characters seems to oscillate between two opposite, really incompatible poles. On the one hand he makes these characters quite distinctive, especially as 'villains'; on the other hand he shows these same characters behaving and thinking exactly like their antagonists."1 Thus in the Hippolytus, quite different characters come to act like their opponents in the course of the play's action. The young virgin Hippolytus comes to sound and act like the mature, sexually experienced Phaedra; Phaedra like Hippolytus; and Theseus like Hippolytus. Even Artemis resembles her opposite, Aphrodite, at the play's end. Furthermore, all characters seek eventually to revenge themselves reciprocally on one another, and in this reciprocity arises the play's disaster. I shall attempt to show how these two processes unfold in Euripides' Hippolytus.