My favorite of the soulless corporate bookstore chains will be closing up shop.
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SEK is meeting with a FORMER STUDENT at his apartment complex to discuss a letter of recommendation. Because SEK's porch occupies his office while his complex paints his porch, FORMER.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing." Apparently the local constabulary has a rather narrow definition.
Over at Crooked Timber, Henry has a really interesting commentary to this Doug Henwood piece attacking the neoliberal left. Henry: Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic solutions to solve social problems. But these kinds of solutions tend to discount politics...
In some vaguely rational universe, the Global Risk Officer for Lehman Brothers from 2002-7 would be working at a Burger King somewhere, and not in a management position. Needless to.
Apparently, Richard Cordray would be a pretty good choice to replace Elizabeth Warren as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And hence has no chance of being confirmed,.
Shorter America's most embarrassing op-ed page: "Nothing to see here -- just two or three bad apples at most. In the meantime, our critics fail to acknowledge that we spent lots of money turning one of the world's great newspapers into a second-rate propaganda mill."
Worst president of the 20th century, I dunno, but the idea that Vietnam should be laid primarily at LBJ's feet is ridiculous. I think Oliver Stone's fervent belief that JFK's.
Apparently, the phone hacking scandal doesn't just implicate people within the Murdoch crime family. Meanwhile, Consigliere Brooks has been arrested. Hopefully this time the questioning officers won't accept Fox News.
David Segal has written another interesting piece on the state of legal education, this time focusing on the business side of law schools. Much of the piece is taken up with a case study of New York Law School and its dean, Richard Matasar. I've...
Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode...... I haven't felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners.
Consiglieres Brooks and Hinton may have resigned, but it seems pretty clear that having been killed by the Murdoch family the good Wall Street Journal is never coming back.