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Gambles at Law:
Transatlantic Economic Disputes
The EU, the US, and the WTO
Paperback
Edited by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and
Mark A. Pollack
Yes, there is a relationship between international trade and gaming theory. Here's what we found while perusing the stacks at our local law library:
| Quote: | The concept of efficient breach of contract is in fact a recipe to raise the mutual benefits of an existing international trade agreement. The concept provides no prediction on what happens if the breach (i.e., deviation) is denied, except that additional benefits are foregone. However, there is a second explanation for renegoiation provisions in international agreements, which is more explicit on possible negative consequences of denial.11 We assume once more that an agreement already exists and distinguish two different cases. In the first case, G would derive benefits from deviation, but these benefits are lower than the discounted value for G of future co-operation by means of the agreement. Although a renegotiation device might be efficient, it is not necessary in order to maintain the stability of the agreement: If there is no such device, deviation will not happen, since G does not want to risk termination of the agreement.12 Yet things change considerably in the second case, where, from G's perspective, today's benefits from deviation are assumed to exceed the discounted value of future co-operation. Now, G would resign from the agreement if the possibility for renegotiation were excluded, and co-operation would therefore be terminated. A renegotiation device could avoid such an outcome. Examining this stability argument for renegotiation further, we discover theat the costs of the renegotiation device must not be higher than the discounted value of future co-operation: otherwise, the renegotiation device would be futile. We conclude that the discounted value of future co-operation defines the maximum costs C/MAX, and that the costs for using the renegotiation instrument must herefore be chosen from the efficiency interval [C/MIN,C/MAX] at the time of designing an international trade agreement with a renegotiation device.13 (Footnotes 12 and 13 omitted)
Footnote 11: Related insights and an extensive game-theoretic can be found in Rosendorff & Milner, 'The Optimal Design of International Trade Institutions: Uncertainty and Escape' (2001) 55 IO 829. (From paper no. 19, Renegotiation in Transatlantic Trade Disputes, by Heinz Hauser and Alexander Roitinger at p. 492). |
Our interest in global renegotiation strategies stems from recent speculation regarding the U.S. response to its latest defeat to tiny Antigua at the World Trade Organization (WTO). For more on that particular dispute resolution process, click here.
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The Smithsonian
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James Boswell's Scotland
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
By Tom Huntington
January, 2005
| Quote: | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Paperback
By James Boswell
The Hebrides adventure [The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] capped the most settled period of Boswell's life. He was 32 then - reasonably content and cheerful, a busy, respectable advocate making a decent living, with a loving wife and the first of their five children. Eventually, however, he began drinking heavily, losing money at cards, visiting prostitutes. In his profession, he hurled himself into lost causes and earned a reputation for erratic behavior. After his father died in 1782, it was his turn to be the Laird of Auchinleck, a man of distinction. But soon enough the satisfactions of country life began to pall. And then, late in 1784, Samuel Johnson died of congestive heart failure at age 75. (Boswell's Scotland, p. 72) |
| Quote: | Life of Samuel Johnson
Paperback
By James Boswell
...Boswell also took care to compose his book in what he called "scenes," [Boswell biographer Adam] Sisman points out, skillfully dramatized little playlets piled one atop another. It was a technique all but unprecedented at the time. The result was biography as intimate epic - a stirring narrative with a glamorous supporting cast and the loquacious warts-and-all hero at center stage. Published in 1791, the book was an immediate success. A review in Gentleman's Magazine called it "a literary portrait...which all who knew the original will allow to be THE MAN HIMSELF." The statesman Edmund Burke told King George it was the most entertaining book he had ever read. The massive, two-volume set was expensive - it cost two guineas, four times as much as a typical book - but the first printing of 1,750 copies sold within months. (Ibid., p. 72) |
For more of author Tom Huntington's truly top-drawer writing, click here on Historic Traveler.com.
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Mordecai Richler on Snooker
The Game and the Characters Who Play It
Hardcover
By Frostback Funnyman Mordecai Richler
(Do NOT miss the AFP cover photo of the Queen Mother lining up her shot).
| Quote: | | Round the corner from Baron Byng, on St. Laurence Boulevard (The Main, in Montreal parlance), lay the Rachel Pool Hall, my deliverance from classes in geometry and intermediate algebra, both of which confounded me. Beginning snooker players at the Rachel were obliged to apprentice on the last four tables, lest we miscue and rip the baize cloth. The faded baize on the humiliating last table no longer mattered. It had already been mended here and there with black tape. There were sticky Coca-Cola stains and cigarette burns. Imitating the more seasoned players, I learned to select a number of cues from the wall rack, ostentatiously rolling them on the table until I settled on one that wasn't hopelessly warped. If my opponent managed a difficult pot, I would bang my cue butt three times on the floor, just like the other Rachel habitues. However, much to my chagrin, I never achieved star status, my very own cue locked into the wall rack like the one that belonged to the all but unbeatable Izzy Halprin, who also pitched for the YMHA Intermediates and would go on to serve on one of those rusty tubs sailing out of Naples, laden with concentration camp survivors, that ran the British blockade of Palestine. Another player, Mendy Perlman, a name to conjure with in those days, became a lawyer, sadly misunderstood, obliged to spend time in the slammer when it turned out that too many aged widows had left him money in the wills he had prepared for them. Before being sentenced, Mendy, once Baron Byng's knockout debater, gave the judge what for: "Six million weren't enough for you," he hollered. "So today you got yourself another victim. Congratulations." (p. 4) |
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Conspiracy
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By HBO Films
Based on the only set of notes from
the infamous Wannsee Conference, those of
Martin Luther, discovered only in 1947.
| Quote: | Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart (played by Colin Firth): If you are suggesting that you have dominion over me, just remember this: Even the Party, which I have served loyally since 1922, answers to the government.
Dr. Gerhard Klopfer (Ian McNeice): They both answer to the Fuhrer. You may be a friend of Goering but if you're a betting man, put your money on Borman. |
We note with more than a passing interest that the majority of the conference attendees were, well, legal advocates. Yes, and Stuckart was arrested in 1945 for war crimes, sentenced in 1949 to time served and then killed in a traffic accident in 1953. Klopfer, too, was arrested in 1945 for war crimes but was discharged for lack of evidence. He later became a tax adviser, a role which must have suited him for he remained with the living until 1987. We will think of Klopfer each spring when we pay our hefty Canadian taxes in return for an ever-diminishing social safety net.
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The New Yorker
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The Talk of the Town
Quagmiers
By Hendrik Hertzberg
Oct. 17/05
| Quote: | The van-loads of (U.S. Chief Justice John) Roberts-related material that the National Archives delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee added up to more than eighty-thousand pages. For Harriet Miers, vans will not be required. There's nothing in the Archives, because she is not known to have ever done a day's work in any branch of the national government before she joined George W. Bush's White House staff, in 2001. If there is anything interesting in the written record of her White House service, "executive privilege" will keep it safely out of sight. Before that, apart from a late-nineties stint as head of the Texas Lottery Commission under then Governor Bush, she devoted herself to the interests of corporate clients (and of Bush, from the earliest flaps about his National Guard service right up through the Florida recount). When it comes to overt indications of what she thinks about the Constitution, though, there's no use frisking her. She's clean.
...The excitable Drudge Report topped its headline with an animated rotating siren, the equivalent of "Extra!": "HARRIET MIERS SUPPORTED FULL CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS." Merciful heavens! (- p. 53) |
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The Nation.
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The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century
By William Greider
Nov. 17/01
| Quote: | The first Chapter 11 lawsuits against national governments were pioneered by entrepreneurial spirits from obscure law firms, starting with a Toronto lawyer named Barry Appleton, who won the first claims victory for the Ethyl Corporation in 1996, suing Canada for its ban on the US company's gasoline additive. Appleton has since opened offices in Washington (his man in DC is a Reaganite lawyer who held high posts at the White House, Treasury and Agriculture). Appleton regularly sues the Canadian government and occasionally issues patriotic warnings that Canada will be flirting with Chapter 11 claims if it goes forward with various actions. Some of his public alerts sound quite fanciful. Canadian hockey and baseball teams, he suggested, can sue the United States because American cities subsidize rival teams with taxpayer-financed stadiums.
The problem is, Appleton might be right. Nobody knows for sure, including the three NAFTA governments. This twilight zone where aggressive lawyers search for big scores should endure for many years, because NAFTA specifies that no arbitration rulings will be regarded as binding precedent for future cases. Thus, even if Methanex and others lose, a troubled company willing to pay for smart lawyers can still take a shot at winning big bucks in NAFTA's legal lottery. (From IV. A Shield Becomes a Sword at p. 6 of 7) |
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Rounders
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Matt Damon and his large, ugly American teeth play a law student who, mercifully for his would-be clients, trades in his torts text for a ticket to high-stakes Texas Hold'em in Vegas. Apart from the gazillion excellent poker tips, the film is a collection of homely guys with bad clothes playing cards in ugly rooms. Some guys are homelier and older than others. Some guys are uglier even than the rooms.
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Arthur & George
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By British author Julian Barnes
| Quote: | 'I feel they're shifting their ground,' said Mr Meek after the court had risen for the day. 'I sense they're up to something.'
'What kind of something?' asked George.
'At Cannock their case was that you went to the field during your walk before dinner. That was why they called so many witnesses who had seen you out and about. That canoodling couple, do you remember? They haven't been put up this time, and they're not the only ones. The other thing is that at the committal the only date mentioned was the 17th. Now the indictment reads the 17th or the 18th. So they're hedging their bets. I sense they're moving to the night-time option. They might have something we don't know about.' (-- pg. 125) |
Poor George, whose chances don't look nearly as the good as the odds in favor of Mr. Barnes being named this year's winner of a substantial book prize, and most deservedly so, in our much less worthy view. A gripping fictional account of Sherlock Holmes creator, the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who managed to clear George Edalji, a young Birmingham solicitor.who was falsely accused of the Great Wyrely Outrages.
| Quote: | Arthur & George
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We're still awaiting this one at the local library Dec. 27/07. Please check back soon for our review. |
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Maddox Brothers and Rose
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| Quote: | The Philadelphia Lawyer (aka Reno Blues)
By Woody Guthrie
Lyrics as recorded by ROSE MADDOX & THE MADDOX BROTHERS, 1940s;
transcribed by Manfred Helfert.
© 1949 Michael H. Goldsen, Inc.
Way out in Reno, Nevada,
Where romance blooms and fades,
A great Philadelphia lawyer
Was in love with a Hollywood maid.
"Come, love, and we will wander
Down where the lights are bright.
I'll win you a divorce from your husband,
And we can get married tonight."
Wild Bill was a gun-totin' cowboy,
Ten notches were carved in his gun.
And all the boys around Reno
Left Wild Bill's maiden alone.
One night when he was returning
From ridin' the range in the cold,
He dreamed of his Hollywood sweetheart,
Her love was as lasting as gold.
As he drew near her window,
A shadow he saw on the shade;
'Twas the great Philadelphia lawyer
Makin' love to Bill's Hollywood maid.
The night was as still as the desert,
The moon hangin' high overhead.
Bill listened awhile to the lawyer,
He could hear ev'ry word that he said:
"Your hands are so pretty and lovely,
Your form's so rare and divine.
Come go with me to the city
And leave this wild cowboy behind."
Now back in old Pennsylvania,
Among those beautiful pines,
There's one less Philadelphia lawyer
In old Philadelphia tonight.
(Track 10) |
More on the copyright protection of Woody's songs and other contemporary gag orders that have made girl scouts reluctant to sing Happy Birthday© around the campfire:
Freedom of Expression
Overzealous Copyright Bozos and
Other Enemies of Creativity
Hardcover
By Kembrew Mcleod
| Quote: | In 1940 Guthrie was bombarded by Irving Berlin's jingoistic "God Bless America," which goes, in part, "From the mountains to the prairies / to the oceans white with foam / God bless America, my home sweet home." The irritated folk singer wrote a response that originally went, "From California to the New York Island / From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters / God blessed America for me." (Guthrie later changed the last line to "This land was made for you and me.") Continuing with his antiprivatization theme, in another version of this famous song Guthrie wrote:
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no trespassin'
But on the other side... it didn't say nothing'!
Now that side was made for you and me!
He set the beautiful lyrics to a beautiful melody he learned from the Carter Family, giving birth to one of the most enduring (and endearing) folk songs of all time. Guthrie's approach is a great example of how appropriation - stealing, borrowing, whatever you want to call it - is a creative act that can have a powerful impact. Before Guthrie, the Industgrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies, borrowed from popular melodies for their radical tunes, which were published and popularized in the Little Red Songbook. These songs also parodied religious hymns, such as "In the Sweet By-and-By," which was changed to, "You will eat by and by."
For Guthrie and many other folk musicians, music was politics. Guthrie was affiliated closely with the labor movement, which inspired many of his greatest songs; these songs, in turn, motivated members of the movement during trying times. That's why Guthrie famously scrawled on his guitar, "This Machine Kills Fascists." Appropriation is an important method that creative people have used to comment on the world for years, from the radical Dada art of the early 20th century to the beats and rhymes of hip-hop artists today. Guthrie drew from the culture that surrounded him and transformed, reworked, and remixed it in order to write moving songs that inspired the working class to fight for a dignified life. ...
I was surprised when (Michael Smith, general manager, Woody Guthrie Publishing) Smith told me that the song-publishing company that owns Guthrie's music denies recording artists permission to adapt his lyrics. And I was shocked when Smith defended the actions of the company, called The Richmnond Organization (TRO), even after I pointed out that Guthrie often altered other songwriters' lyrics. ...
...In a written statement attached to a published copy of his lyrics for This Land Is Your Land, Guthrie made clear his belief that it should be understood as communal property. "This song is Copyrighted in US," he wrote, "under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission will be mighty good friends of ours, 'cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." ...
In a dramatic turn of events, Ludlow Music, the subsidiary of TRO that controls Guthrie's most famous copyrights, backed off from its legal threats against JibJab.com's parody (This Land!, by cartoonists lampooning the 2004 U.S. election). ... More interesting was the discovery by EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) senior intellectual property attorney Fred von Lohmann that, according to his research, "This Land Is Your Land" has been in the public domain since 1973! He writes:
Fact #1: Guthrie wrote the song in 1940. At that time, the term of copyright was 28 years, renewable once for an additional twenty-eight years. Under the relevant law, the copyright term for a song begins when the song is published as sheet music. (Just performing it is not enough to trigger the clock.) Fact #2: A search of Copyright Office records shows that the copyright wasn't registered until 1956, and Ludlow filed for a renewal in 1984. Fact #3: Thanks to tips provided by musicologists who heard about this story, we discovered that Guthrie published and sold the sheet music for "This Land Is Your Land" in a pamphlet in 1945. An original copy of this mimeograph was located for us by generous volunteers who visited the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. This means that the copyright in the song expired in 1973, twenty-eight years after Guthrie published the sheet music. Ludlow's attempted renewal in 1984 was eleven years tardy, which means the classic Guthrie song is in the public domain. (I'll note that Ludlow disputes this, although I've not heard any credible explanation from them.) So Guthrie's original joins "The Star Spangled Banner," "Amazing Grace," and Beethoven's Symphonies in the public domain. Come to think of it, now that "This Land Is Your Land" is in the public domain, can we make it our national anthem? That would be the most fitting ending of all. (From This Gene Is Your Gene, pgs. 23-28) |
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Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier
Canada's star female poker player
Interviewed on CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada
| Quote: | Thursday, July 20, 2006, 10:00 a.m. 20/07/2006
Meet Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier, a professional poker player from Victoriaville Quebec who ranks 12th amongst female players in the world. As though that’s not exciting enough, she’s about to appear in a film with Burt Reynolds, and she’s Jian Ghomeshi’s guest on Sounds Like Canada...She is currently taking part in the Poker World Series in Las Vegas (June 26- Aug. 10/06), and spoke to Jian via telephone from there. (From cbc.ca Program Guide for July 20/06) |
And she's also a lawyer? Yes, although she walked out of the firm where she did her practicum about 15 minutes after qualifying, according to the interview. Isabelle is qualified to practise law in Quebec, which unlike the rest of Canada, is governed by a civil code. More about Quebec's unique legal system.
Isabelle's advice to players thinking of going pro: Practise and improve your game at Internet poker sites.
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Bachelors Anonymous
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By P.G. Wodehouse
| Quote: | 'That's the part where I don't quite follow you. I don't see how Trout comes into it.'
'It was the way he talked. Don't you remember? All that stuff about being unable to guarantee success because we must not lose sight of the fact that in the matter under advisement we should be facing difficulties. He made it sound as if he hadn't a hope.'
'Lawyers always talk that way. You should hear Shoesmith of Shoesmith, Shoesmith, Shoesmith, and Shoesmith. It's their native caution. Building for the future, as you might put it. If the thing's a flop, they can say "I warned you that this might happen." If it's a success, you will think how wonderful they must be to have brought it off against all the odds.' (-- p. 130) |
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Summer Crossing
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By Truman Capote
| Quote: | As a lawyer, I realize more than most the responsibilities of a trustee of a charitable trust. I am also very conscious of the high standard of care that any fiduciary must apply in reaching his or her decisions. However, it is not often that a trustee or even a literary executor is put into a positiion where he must decide whether to publish a work of an important deceased author that, very likely, the author would not have published in his lifetime. Truman died in 1984. What would he have thought now? Would he have had the historical perspective and indeed the clearheadedness to decide what was best for the manuscript? After much thought it became apparent to me that in the final analysis the novel had to speak for itself. Although it was imperfect, its surprising literary merits seemed to demand an escape from its previous captivity. It would be published.
I wish to thank my advisors and everyone else who has helped make this publication happen. At the end of the day, of course, the respobsibility for this decision, legally, ethically, and aesthetically, is and must be mine alone. In this I am mindful of the ironic twist of fate that prevented us from publishing a novel Truman believed he had finished (Answered Prayers) but allows us to publish this novel, which most likely he did not want published. As I write this I see Truman with his impish grin wagging a finger at me. "You are a naughty avvocato!" he is saying. But he is smiling.
Alan U. Schwartz
October 2005 |
The Truman Capote Literary Trust trustee on certain contents of a box of documents containing inter alia four school notebooks and sixty-two supplemental notes left by a Brooklyn curb when their author decided not to return to the apartment following an absence but to move house.
What treasure might be revealed if the Roll & Shuffle was suddenly to take a powder, one wonders? A drawer of mismatched socks, 65 pencil stubs and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
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By Sir John Mortimer
| Quote: | There followed a bleak period in the Rumpole career. Not since the early days, when I had sat in what was then Hilda's daddy's chambers, had I faced such an alarming absence of paid employment. I arrived at chambers each day and did The Times crossword too quickly. Then I carried on with my memoirs until it was time for the shot of pie and Guinness at the pub, which I began to wonder if I could still afford. Back in chambers I had the first small cigar and fell into a light doze. At around teatime I would go into the clerk's room and ask Henry if I had anything 'in the list for tomorrow'.
'No, Mr Rumpole. You're in luck's way -- they're giving you a holiday tomorrow.' (From Chapter 16 at pg. 76) |
Rumpole's dry spell doesn't last long, however. Knighted author, playwright and former barrister weighs in on the excessive cost of recent anti-terrorist laws.
| Quote: | Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
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Narrated by UK veteran actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales
We were yet awaiting our library copy Dec. 27/07, but it must sound fabulous! Please check back soon for our review. |
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The Young Apollo
and Other Stories
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By New York Living Landmark Louis Auchincloss
| Quote: | | Of course it was my rapidly growing fame as a litigator that drew them to the firm. When I agreed to represent a client, I was concerned, perfectly properly, with only two factors: was his case either winnable or capable of a good settlement, and could he pay my high fee? It was said of me, I know, that I could have got Judas off with a suspended sentence, but I took it as a compliment. I have always been aware that true justice was not invariably promoted by my victories in court, but let those who wail about this devise a better system. If I was never much concerned with what sentimentalists call the "spirit" of the law, it is also true that I never broke one. A trial to me is a game to be played, and why play a game in any way but to win? (From the story entitled, Due Process, at pgs. 220-221). |
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Vanity Fair
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Black Mischief
By Maureen Orth
February, 2007
| Quote: | Conrad Black, Canada's most famous non-citizen, is home again in Toronto, awaiting trial in Chicago in March on 14 counts of criminal fraud, racketeering, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and mail and wire fraud. Once the powerful chairman of the third-largest newspaper in the world, Hollinger International - at its peak the owner of the London Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and more than 500 community newspapers in Canada and the United States - Black at 62 is facing a maximum of 101 years in prison, $164 million in fines, and forfeiture of assets in excess of $92 million. Apart from the criminal charges, Black is also facing numerous civil suits, including two major ones from Hollinger Inc., the Canadian holding company that controls more than 70 per cent of Hollinger International's voting stock. (-- p. 166)
...The criminal trial is scheduled to begin in March at the earliest, and the court has ruled that until then all discovery-related civil actions, including defamation * suits Black has brought against Henry Kissinger, other members of the board, and Richard Breeden, must be halted so as not to interfere with the criminal case. (-- p. 197)
| Quote: | Wrong Way:
The Fall of Conrad Black
Hardcover
By Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart
... I had spoken to (Black's lawyer, 'Fast Eddie') Greenspan before Black so fervently decided to testify on his own behalf. Clearly Black's testimony was a delicate subject, and the only point where I found Greenspan at a loss for words. When I asked him if Black would take the stand, there was a long pause and then: "I'lll leave that alone." In their award-winning 2004 book, Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, Jacquie McNish and Stewart Sinclair report that Greenspan has made a deal with Black that every time Black, who is known for his rococco vocabulary, uses big words in the courtroom he will have to pay Greenspan - $50 for five-syllable words, $40 for four-syllable, $30 for three. "He talks like that when his shoes are off," Greenspan informs me. "But something goes with those words. There is an appearance of a pompous arrogance." (-- p. 198)
...Now a self-proclaimed freedom fighter, Black last fall went on the offensive. He began speaking - performing in public once again, using words like "fissiparous" (another $40 for Greenspan) from the podium and wowing Establishment audiences in Canada who are meant to feel that *he is being picked on by Uncle Sam...(-- p. 203) |
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* Not picked on by Uncle Sam but rather by the heavy-handed zeal with which Sam wields his new post 9/11, privacy- and civil liberty-free notion of common law, wrongly and wrongfully casting America as the forum of choice for absolutely everything everywhere.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
*(and now one more from former pal, Black)
DVD
Read The Return of Henry Kissinger, Will we never be free of the malign effect of this little gargoyle? by Christopher Hitchens at the excellent Washington e-zine, Slate, Oct. 6/06.
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