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…ited by law to integrate the student body, Black’s father instead integrated the faculty, raised standards, and brought more challenging subjects to the school. Later in his childhood, Black’s parents found new jobs and relocated the family to Shaker Heights, Ohio. Black attended...

…neutral stance on commodities. Increased global liquidity has pushed prices up over the last few months, however, for a more sustained price increase we likely need to see further evidence of an acceleration in global growth. Foreign Exchange We remain underweight the Japanese ye...

…arrest and charging decisions. 11 A broader view, however, reveals that all criminal justice systems incorporate one or more strategies to address underenforcement, which can be collectively described as redundant charging authority. All are to some degree familiar, though they a...

…D, rotation from long to short duration. Others are new – JPY lower, NKY higher, EM lower. The key question is how much more they can go? Growth/inflation higher in 17/18 - modest fiscal boost Our economists think the fiscal impact of Trump will be modest at 0.5% on growth in H2...

A true account by AJ Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire magazine (ellipses represent passage of time between entries) IT BEGAN a month ago. I was midway through The World Is Flat, the bestseller by Tom Friedman. I like Friedman, despite his puzzling decision to wear a mustache....

…e contends that the Advisory Committee should broaden its vision of the proper role for crime victims and recommend far more expansive victim protections. In the CVRA, Congress articulated specific rights for crime victims, such as the right to be notified of court hearings, to a...

…30-year Treasury reaching a yield of 2.088% in July, US equity markets reaching all-time highs, and oil prices rallying more than 40% since the start of the year. Given the Republican sweep - and the resulting likelihood that the logjam of Washington gridlock will be broken - our...

…rican interests. But, is it doable? The president still has time to make mid-course corrections and start to move in a more promising direction. But time is short and he will have to recognize some of the serious errors he has made if he is to get things right. To have a chance...

…GOLDBERGER: Okay. 9 DIRECT EXAMINATION 10 BY MS. HADDAD: 11 Q. Well, Scott, I know you've talked about this 12 probably more than you even care to, but I'd like to 13 start a little bit asking you about the scheme at your 14 firm and how arid when it started and things of that 15...

…stein’s dining room might seem to offer some buffer in this leveled, angry age for a super rich man who attends to even more fabulously rich men (and the occasional extremely rich woman). On the other hand, with the paparazzi often posted near by, the outside world seem dangerous...

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…would never pass muster under the Supreme Court's recent pronouncements and should not be countenanced. That is all the more true under the circumstances where the duly appointed U.S. Attorney opined that, in effect, the "unitary" Executive Branch was driving this prosecution. We...

…es traverse the shipping lanes between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Growing hostility between the two countries could make it more difficult for the U.S. to exit smoothly from Iraq this year, as planned. And, perhaps most dire, it could exacerbate what many fear is a looming nuclear ar...

…ly announced in October 1972 after a seeming breakthrough in Vietnam negotiations. But it wasn’t at hand. It took three more months to complete the Paris Peace Accords, which collapsed in 1975 when North Vietnam overran Saigon. This Vietnam history is a caution against premature...

…stein’s dining room might seem to offer some buffer in this leveled, angry age for a super rich man who attends to even more fabulously rich men (and the occasional extremely rich woman). On the other hand, with the paparazzi often posted near by, the outside world seem dangerous...