It turns out, for example, that men with low-pitched voices have more than the usual amount of testosterone, which makes them unusually assertive. No surprise that trial lawyers, who make their living by locking verbal horns in front of spectators, have 30 percent more testosterone than other lawyers.
John L. Locke,"Why Do Men and
Note the "and" in "to protect the Lender's interest in the Property and
Setting: Sunday morning at the Original House of Pancakes, Northwest Highway unit. Newsprint litters a table. Bitey gulps coffee and tries for eye contact with Snappy, who has just done the crossword.
Bitey: Hey, Snaps — did you read the "The Glass Ceiling" thing in The New York Times? On the page
Can you think of anybody who has made more of a direct impact on your life than Steve Jobs?
He of the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad?
Anybody? No? Dang.
How could you not admire his work?
When Blawgletter read of the death of Mr. Jobs this week, we felt sad. That surprised us.
People who run a company that enters the "zone of insolvency" acquire a new set of duties. Surprise!
Instead of working only for the firm and its owners, they must now answer also to its creditors. And, if they let the outfit keep going when it should shut down to cut losses, they may expose themselves
Another quirk of his at the time was that in general he refused to look at any memo submitted to him in writing if it exceeded one page. He required memos from his employees and advisors to be reduced to one page and he preferred that each memo deal only with one subject matter.
Oberly
Four years ago, Blawgletter wrote about a Second Circuit ruling that rejected claims by workers at Ground Zero for the harm that resulted from breathing toxic air in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. We said:
The Second Circuit yesterday affirmed dismissal of claims that the federal government deliberately misrepresented the safety of working at Ground Zero
We had to save the banks in order to sue them.
Jonathan Weil, "Suing Banks is Next Best Thing to Letting Them Fail", Bloomberg, Sept. 8, 2011 (referring mainly to Federal Housing Finance Agency lawsuit against 17 banks relating to "sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities").
Man sitting at desk, talking on a telephone:
Why is everyone's valuable input so stupid?
BEK, The New Yorker, July 11-18, 2011, at 66.
We . . . refuse to abdicate our constitutional duty when Congress has acted beyond its enumerated Commerce Clause power in mandating that Americans, from cradle to grave, purchase an insurance product from a private company.
Florida v. United States Dept. of Health & Human Services, No. 11-11021 (11th Cir. Aug. 12, 2011) (Dubina, C.J.) (striking