"It was as if he were giving the lectures for her," the student mused.
Doctors were ordered not to cooperate further, and the lecture hall for her next seminar was empty.
Ms. Wagner dug through old autopsy reports, ancient medical books, dusty trial transcripts and three decades of lecture notes for her book, "The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases" (John Wiley & Sons, $24.95), which was published this month.
A student from the University of California Irvine asked how she could find all the lecture notes for her school for free.
After that successful meeting, Stone accepted Blackwell's offer to arrange a lecturing tour for her in the western states – considered then to be those west of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
On the other side of the court's ideological spectrum, as another L.A. Times article noted, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg maintains involvement in a lecture series named for her that is co-sponsored by New York City's bar association and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which frequently participates in Supreme Court cases.
She logs in to the same type of video chat room used for lectures and waits for her friends to dial in.
Snyder peeled off from the group in order to visit university campuses, lecture, recruit new students for her training program, and listen to local therapists present their cases — a series of brief, often devastating glimpses of people in distress.
Early last week her father told a story about how Venus used to stare out the window of her second-grade classroom, with the sound of the lecture as background noise for her daydreams.
Snyder peeled off from the group in order to visit university campuses, lecture, recruit new students for her training program, and listen to local therapists present their cases a series of brief, often devastating glimpses of people in distress.
