Posts by Tim Zinnecker

At a recent squash match between Dartmouth and Harvard, some Dartmouth students apparently crossed the line between merely heckling the visitors and engaging in inappropriate verbal behavior.For at least 90…

Hey Dan, add Washington and Lee to your list of law schools looking for a dean.  Rod Smolla will be leaving the Lexington VA school and moving to Greenville SC…

Congrats to Fred Rooney, the director of CUNY Law’s Community Legal Resource Network.  The AALS has announced that Rooney is being awarded the Father Robert Drinan Award from its Section…

As a follow-up to Dan's pre-Thanksgiving post here, the dean search committee at Iowa has released the names of its five finalists.  They are:1) Gregory Mark (associate dean and professor…

While channel surfing in recent days, I stumbled across a concert on the local PBS station.  The concert, recorded live in New York, featured Straight No Chaser, an a capella …

I read John Grisham's book, The Associate, this week.  I enjoyed the story (notwithstanding my expectation of a different ending).In a brief part of the book, the main character (a…

On page 60 of the 11/30/09 issue of Newsweek, the magazine lists the frequency of some of the words found in the final statements of prisoners executed in Texas since…

Peeps.   The adorable marshmallow favorites that are a staple of many a child's diet during the Easter season.   Who can resist the sugary and spongy bunnies and chicks?…

Cancer is a leading cause of death, and colon cancer is one of its more fatal forms.   Many physicians recommend that a patient undergo a colonoscopy at the age…

Not sure if hell will freeze over today.  But Houston is expected to break a record for its earliest recorded snowfall, with flurries by noon and perhaps two inches of…