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...Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said that the United States must take whatever steps necessary to ensure that Iran does not procure a nuclear bomb...
...letter to faculty and staff at Harvard Law School today, interim dean Howell E. Jackson wrote that 12 people would be notified by five o’clock tomorrow that they would be laid...
...Smith Goes to Washington Warren was an unlikely choice to head the oversight panel, not least because of her lack of familiarity with Washington parlor games. Her academic specialty is bankruptcy law, especially as it pertains to the American middle class. She emerged on the public stage in 2003, when she published the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, co-authored with her daughter. The book argues that women and middle-class couples were driving themselves to ruin trying to buy houses in good public-school districts: "Having a child is now the single...
Fisher fell on hard times after the 1929 crash--getting by thanks only to the generosity of a wealthy sister-in-law and his employer, Yale--and so did the myth of the rational market. For a few decades, financial markets were seen as unruly beasts that had to be tamed with tight regulation to help protect the hard-earned savings of regular Americans. But memories of the 1930s eventually faded, and in the 1950s, the idea that markets knew best began its comeback. This was part ideological reaction to the antimarket conventions of the day, part scientific progress...
...fact but on who could shout loudest. The book elevates itself with original reporting, some witty asides (a Mitch Albom best seller is slammed as "what Dante would have written had he grown up next door to the Cleavers") and judicious use of examples from American history. With a law professor in the White House, Pierce's thesis and gleeful bashing of the previous Administration ("we have lived through an unprecedented decade of richly empowered hooey") seem a bit dated. But his high-octane ranting and sophisticated prose (he is a contributing writer for Esquire) may well appeal...