Fall 2011 -- Zvi Band’s Facebook profile says it all: “I’m going to make the world a better place. And make a lot of money doing it.” A web developer, native Californian, and amateur DJ, Band is helping transform a metropolis known for its stodgy politicians and their backroom dealing into an entrepreneurial hotspot—and having a blast doing it.

2011-10-26

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On October 13, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to throw out the fraud conviction of Greg Reyes that had emerged from the...

Oct 21, 2011

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One hundred, thirty-two months in which Raj Rajaratnam, a man capable of making millions through his ability to find out or figure out the..

Oct 13, 2011

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I’d like to present some excerpts from a prosecution brief in the sentencing of Raj Rajaratnam. Lawyers for Rajaratnam, who is to be.....

Oct 12, 2011

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I hope I’m only one of many to see the irony. On the day that Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative entrepreneurs in our history, died...

Oct 6, 2011

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愛德華·哈金斯

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律師應該能夠代表公司及其員工嗎？如果公司的高管和其他員工不能信任

Oct 5, 2011

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Law professor Doug Berman, who runs the “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog, has just highlighted another case that seems to point up the Justice Department’s “submit or die” policy.

Oct 3, 2011

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This one will take your breath away and, when you recover, teach you a life-saving philosophy lesson. The Obama administration’s Food and...

Sep 30, 2011

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愛德華·哈金斯

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For years, your life has been crashing around you. You were a corporate president; now, you are a criminal defendant. The jury has reached..

Sep 29, 2011

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Ayn Rand was that most delightful of philosophers—the philosopher who proposes large and interesting theories, and allows them to remain...

Sep 28, 2011

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斯蒂芬·考克斯

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I hear customers are angry at Netflix over its recent changes. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: Why would anyone be angry...

Sep 22, 2011

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Did I just see a United States senator commit extortion? Two senators, even? At the Google antitrust hearing, after praising the contributions Google has made to New York’s economy, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) noted that a location elsewhere had been chosen as a test site for a Google networking project.

Sep 22, 2011

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September 13, 2011 -- What if our economy was a tree from which politicians could just take and take and take? When would they stop? Would

Sep 14, 2011

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Michael Ozias

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President Obama likes to talk about the value of contributing to your community, but in the jobs bill he sent to Congress yesterday, he targets such contributions for increased taxation. By limiting tax deductions for voluntary giving, Obama would consolidate government control over helping your fellow man and improving your community.

Sep 13, 2011

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二十一世紀的第一個十年是由伊斯蘭主義者定義的，他們使用飛機作為武器來對付世界貿易中心和

2011-9-11

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愛德華·哈金斯

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Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of ‘Business as usual.’ Well—business as usual, Mr. Ward! --Hank Rearden, in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged In the fall of 2001, I was a law student, interviewing with law firms. At the bottom of my resume, where law students identify personal interests that are supposed to “humanize” them, I listed “quotations.” Naturally, I was asked quite a few times for quotations pertinent to 9/11. I chose two. One, the second verse of an old favorite song , stressed the insignificance of death in comparison with life. The other, quoted above, emphasized the importance of pursuing the work that makes life possible even when faced with destruction.

Sep 9, 2011

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Every day, it seems, another “insider-trading” defendant is hauled before the courts or sentenced to prison. In fact, many of these “insider traders” are not insiders at all. They are merely people who have acquired information from insiders.

Sep 8, 2011

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"World trade means world peace.The World Trade Center buildings in New York had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace.…The World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness." --World Trade Center chief architect Minoru Yamasaki.

Sep 6, 2011

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“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.” In a wonderful twist of fate, nobody knows who coined that aphorism, but that doesn’t keep it from being attributed to Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, and Josh Billings.

Sep 5, 2011

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The following excerpt from Conrad Black’s comment , as he prepares to return to prison, made me recall a slogan often invoked by those who have been wrongly convicted: “Don’t serve the time; make the time serve you.” Note that Black has a book on his ordeal coming out next week.

Sep 4, 2011

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