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June 27, 2008
Writing well, and living large.
Commenting on the body of work left by John Dryden (1631-1700), the English poet, critic and playwright, Samuel Johnson (who was born a few years after Dryden's death) called Dryden's compositions "the effects of a vigorous genius working upon large materials".
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UK and American boards
From the FT piece:
UK: The most analysed and debated governance environment anywhere. The unitary board model survives, but since the recommendations of the Higgs report in 2003 there are more non-executives (and fewer executives) around board tables than in the past. The chairman and chief executive roles are usually kept separate.
US: Also a unitary board model, but with chairman, chief executive (and president) roles more often than not being held by the same person. A longer tradition of non-executive dominance of the boardroom. There is, however, a growing sense that Sarbanes-Oxley went too far and needs to be refined.
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June 26, 2008
Condi Rice and South Korea
South Korea is a "global partner" but Japan and Australia are "allies". See at Korea Law a June 10 piece by Seoul-based Brendon Carr: "Korea Left Out of Condi’s List of American Allies in Pacific". It's based on Korean news coverage of an article U.S. Secretary of State Rice wrote in the July-August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Next up at Global Blawg Review: GeekLawyer.
The big question for Blawg Review readers next week is Geeklawyer to run rampage through the next Blawg Review? A relatively tame and expletive-laundered sampling is below:
Dan Hull’s blog is the quintessential American lawyer blog. Dan is a depraved evil sociopathic neocon ambulance chasing beast pretending he loves his clients merely to get into their wallets. Of course he has his bad side too but let us not explore that little dark alleyway now.
--GeekLawyer, October 6, 2007
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See me, feel me, call me.
Making sense in Chicago. Read Patrick Lamb's "Email Free Fridays" to strengthen client relationships at In Search of Perfect Client Service. And see "E-mail is a great tool and it's making you nuts. Call me."
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June 25, 2008
Customer service in a down economy.
See Axel Meierhoefer's post "What’s the best customer service during a recession?" at his Leadership and Talent Development for Smart People.
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A Blawg Review with Gaul.
More Europeans. Dang. This week's host of Blawg Review hails from the European nation Yanks (and Brits, for that matter) like to complain about the most. But we at WAC? think that France does reflect the best if buried part of the American soul. It serves, if you will, as Caretaker-in-Chief of the West's best political and artistic folkways and traditions: the haughty over-educated big sister who annoys us, excruciatingly so because she is often right. And, hey, the French do food well. Take this musical, literary and political jaunt through #165 with Edinburgh-based Nicolas Jondet at French-law.net, "French Law in English". We asked for it, we like it.
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June 24, 2008
Race in jury selection.
In juries, mock juries, focus groups and polls, Americans and other humans are complicated, and hard to know. See Anne Reed's new article "It's About Race. It's Not About Race." at Deliberations.
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Think like a client--help control costs.
Rule Eight from WAC?'s 12 Rules.
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China pollution liability; China due diligence.
For the glorification of the risk-bearer. China Law Blog in "Is China Going Green? Part XV" comments on "Government Targets Land Pollution to Ensure Food Security" in the June 20 China Daily.
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George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937-2008)
One seriously funny, angry American-Irish guy from the City who always made us think. An original. See Washington Post obit.
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June 22, 2008
Language legislation?
Lauren Elkin at The Paris Blog and Maitresse has this one from June 20:
Controversy is brewing in France this week over a proposed amendment to the Constitution declaring regional languages to be part of France’s patrimony. The amendment, which was proposed on May 22nd, was suppressed by the Senate on June 18th, two-thirds of whom agreed that it threatened the unity of French national identity, invoking legislature from 1539 and 1794 (God, I love France) as precedent.
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