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December 22, 2007

Stocks enter the holidays on a high note.

From the Wall Street Journal:

In the last full trading day before Christmas, stocks brought joy to the investment world, delivering the December boost investors had hoped for.

Sources of holiday cheer included strong earnings, signs of healthy consumer spending and a possible capital infusion for Merrill Lynch, one of several Wall Street firms struggling with losses on mortgage-related investments. [more]

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Mediating Internationally

At the International Dispute Negotiation series of The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), hear the latest interview, No. 7: "Mediating Using International Arbitration Institutions: The ICDR and the ICC." Hosted by Michael McIlwrath, Senior Litigation Counsel with General Electric based in Florence, Italy.

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On the Senate, court and cocktail parties.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

--Marcus Tullius Cicero, lawyer-statesman-poet-pundit (106-43 BC)

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