Despite the horse’s terror and the lack of a canine-friendly saddle, Rex managed to escape the Federal government’s attempt to destroy his base of operations in Opal City. He even managed to rescue temporarily disgraced local lawman, ‘Red’ O’Dare, forever putting him in his debt. In later years, O’Dare would compare being rescued by Rex as akin to ‘bein’ plucked outta Hell by Cerberus hisownself’. This opinion hadn’t changed by the time O’Dare died of liver failure. WONDER-DOG!

“There isn’t a better person out there to discuss [ethics and politics] than former Governor Rod Blagojevich,” say Dan Rockoff, vice president of Northwestern’s College Democrats, the group that is sponsoring Tuesday’s event. No word on Blagojevich’s appearance fee. [Source]…

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Great Moment in Ethics: Former Governor Rod Blagojevich to Speak at Northwestern

“There isn’t a better person out there to discuss [ethics and politics] than former Governor Rod Blagojevich,” say Dan Rockoff, vice president of Northwestern’s College Democrats, the group that is sponsoring Tuesday’s event. No word on Blagojevich’s appearance fee

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Great Moment in Ethics: Former Governor Rod Blagojevich to Speak at Northwestern

What do you mean no one cares, Mr. Letterman! I’ve become a big fan

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Friday Fun: Three Cheers for Curling!

The FCC conducted a survey of 5,005 Americans in October and November 2009 to understand the state of broadband adoption and use, as well as barriers facing those who do not have broadband at home. The main findings reported in…

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Findings of the FCC’s Broadband Adoption and Use Survey Identify Barriers and Attitudes of Non-Adopters

“The school that’s ranked 12th by Thomas M. Cooley Law School and is considered fourth tier by everyone else” reports ATL’s Elie Mystal has bought the naming rights to Oldsmobile Park, home of the Lansing Lugnuts, a Class A affiliate…

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Three Cheers for the Lugnuts at Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Speculation is mounting that another rate cut is in the pipeline. Markets will be critically assessing economic data releases ahead of the next rate decision on 25 March.

Given the generous degree of monetary policy accommodation in the system, our econometric analysis suggests that the data will have to be extraordinarily weak to augment the case for another interest rate cut.

Probabilities of a rate cut are estimated for a range of indicators and their outcomes ahead of the next MPC meeting. We also flag the risk of pipeline price pressures that may arise as a result of the change in the inventory cycle and concomitant availability of credit within a loose policy environment.

The Finance Minister will also address inflation targeting next week. In all likelihood, inflation targeting will remain the status quo.

Some of you might remember the announcement about a new American Law Reports series that was released a few weeks ago. I know it might have gone unnoticed with all the ridiculous cloak and dagger hype surrounding WestlawNext (honestly, have…

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Thomson Reuters = TEASER

For LexisNexis, “[t]he core law firm business was flat in the US and marginally lower internationally reflecting the downturn in the legal industry whilst US directory listings were well behind the prior year as firms cut back on directory spend….

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"LexisNexis had a challenging year:" Some Thoughts on 2009 Revenue Being Down 4% and Operating Profits Down 15%

For LexisNexis, “[t]he core law firm business was flat in the US and marginally lower internationally reflecting the downturn in the legal industry whilst US directory listings were well behind the prior year as firms cut back on directory spend….

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"LexisNexis had a challenging year:" Some Thoughts on 2009 Revenue Being Down 4% and Operating Profits Down 15%