Month: October 2009

In a strange and (I trust) unrelated confluence of events today, I: (1) Happened upon a blog post about stupid criminals in High Point, North Carolina, that (2) Was building…

Via Andrew Sullivan, odd and clever abstract of the day: Civil War Exposure and Violence, by Edward Miguel, Sebastián M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath: In recent years scholars have begun…

I had been meaning to post about this for a while but life got on top of me.  Jeanne Fromer at Fordham has written a great essay on trade secret…

Borrowing, but tweaking, the caption from Christine Hurt's post here, I submit the following thirty questions (in no particular order, and with a few suggestions from a friend):1.  Why did…

Via Al Roth: Choosing sex of children: repugnant in Britain but not in U.S.  The Times reports: US clinic offers British couples the chance to choose the sex of their…

The GAO Report, Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access, is out and being much discussed in the blawgosphere.  GAO concludes “According to law school officials, the move to…

1) Mark McGwire retired from baseball following the 2001 season.  He ranks #8 on the career home run list with 583 round-trippers (tied with A-Rod).  He hasn't fared all that…

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do a bank failures update, but it’s overdue. The FDIC closed seven more banks on Friday, and that brings the total…

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has today reported that Case Western's interim dean, Robert Rawson , will be staying on for a while.  We're all happy to welcome him into his…

And Yale too. It’s been known for some time that Harvard, Yale, and other elite educational institutions would report large endowment losses this year.  For example, Harvard disclosed in mid-September…