(R)emember one thing only: that it's you-- nobody else-- who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys but none of them can ever be you.

--E.E. Cummings, six nonlectures

In response to my previous post, Will points out it has already been written about.

But, to embellish the details (and, much to my delight), reader Bob Haut writes in with some excellent suggestions:

To my mind (and in my experience), ratatouille can be made pretty much any way you want to, with any combination of vegetables and herbs/spices you want to put in it as long as three of them are eggplant, zucchini (or some other kind of summer squash, I suppose) and tomato. What I have done, and it works well, is (a) peel globe eggplant, slice an inch and a half thick, salt it and press it for an hour or so to get some of the liquid out, then rinse it and cut it into cubes*; (2) cut zucchini into 1-1/2" thick rounds; (3) halve Roma tomatoes; (4) quarter onions; (5) cover baking sheets with foil, and heavily oil the foil with olive oil; (6) toss the vegetables in olive oil and lay them on the baking sheets; (6) salt and pepper the vegetables; (7) roast them for 30 - 35 minutes at 400 degrees; (8) while they are still pretty warm, put them in a big plastic bag with some more olive oil so they can (a) meld their flavors, and (b) exude some juices.

I don't think it particularly needs anything more than salt -- sea salt or kosher salt are WAY better then WhenItRainsItPours -- and pepper in the way of seasoning, but that's a matter of taste. If I were going to add herbs -- fresh or dried -- I'd add them at the point I put the vegetables into the plastic bag, after roasting.

*or peel Japanese eggplant and just cut it into 1-1/2" thick rounds, without salting it down; that'd be easier, and probably better (by which I mean I think Japanese eggplant tastes better than globe, though it's harder to get). Or, if you can find them, you could probably use Chinese (aka Indian) eggplant, which are literally the size and shape of jumbo eggs, and just cut them in half. I bet that would be great.

Harvard's Bill Stuntz has an absolutely fascinating article in the January 2006 Harvard Law Review (on Lexis but not yet online). William J. Stuntz, The Political Constitution of Political Justice, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 780 (2006). I'll link to it as soon as it's available.
The gist of Stuntz's claim is that the constitutionalization of criminal procedure by the Warren Court changes the political calculus for modern politicians by making it harder to regulate criminal procedure but easier to regulate political substance-- thus giving us draconian sentence lengths, and so on. The article is much longer than that and has many other points, so more will follow, especially once Professor Berman posts about it.