Month: July 2009

Number 7 of The Top 8 Reasons Not to Go to Law School: Law school professors are some of the most pretentious and arrogant people on this earth. They know…

I attended a seminar on university leadership today.  Here's some random impressions.  1. We did lots of talking about the importance of listening (but not much actual listening).  I guess…

Proposal:  “Instead of lifetime tenure, each justice could be appointed to a finite term.  If the justices served for 18 years, every president could appoint two justices during each four-year…

Calculated Risk had a great analysis of bank failures over the weekend.  On Friday, the FDIC closed four banks -- Temecula Valley Bank, Temecula, California; Vineyard Bank, National Association, Rancho…

That's the title of this article in the August edition of Vanity Fair.  From Nina Munk’s lead-in: Only a year ago, Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia.…

I see the New York Times has an article on the rising number of home funerals -- and the rising number of people buried on family property, rather than in…

After Mark and Kim's posts on Moon Day yesterday, and my comments about what percentage of Cleveland radio listeners still believe the moon landing was a hoax, I was interested in today's…

As regular readers know, I’m a fan of the blog News from 1930, which provides a daily news summary based upon the author’s reading of the Wall Street Journal from the…

As I'm taking a mid-morning break from edits on Integrating Spaces, I see that lots of legal academics are  disappointed in the Sotomayor hearings.  I enjoyed listening to them (a…

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