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...whom have undergraduate law degrees. They make up an extensive, inexpensive and nearly invisible legal-services network, dealing with ordinary tax, patent, administrative and real estate transactions. Nor do lawyers handle fender-bending auto accidents. Japanese insurance companies normally dispose of claims without resorting to the almost pro forma suits that many U.S. underwriters seem to demand before a settlement is made. A judge's ruling is sought only in extreme conditions if negotiation fails...
...think the Board recognizes that we filed a pro forma suit only to protect out right to pursue an appeal, agreed Jacqueline O'Neill of Harvard's office of Community Affairs. "We still have a solid working relationship with them," she added...
This minor truism was handed the Democrats as well. Twenty-six new seats in the House is fine, but not as heartening as 40 or 50 would have been, and a wash in the Senate is plain discouraging. Despite Tip O'Neill's pro forma yawp that the G.O.P. loss was "disastrous," it wasn't. The Democrats (and moderate Republicans) have simply been given more rope with which to hold the President in check, not to hang themselves or the nation. Profligate Government spending looks no more attractive today than it did two years...
...worst thing American Jews can do is blindly accept all Israel's positions pro forma, as rabbis all around the country probably did last weekend. That can only harden Israeli intransigence. American Jews have to abandon their traditional practice of rallying to the government line just because it has few other friends. Israel is a strong, tough state, in no need of coddling. Only by being honest with their feelings and speaking out can American Jews do their most for the Jewish state. Even if that honesty and speaking out means a little bit of friendly criticism...
...elements of parody notwithstanding, it is no joke to see a machine become a man, especially in an era whose main (if somewhat pro forma) worry centers on men becoming machines...