COLUMN: The practice of law
There is nothing in the world more noble, more civilized, or more indicative of progress with a capital P, than the law. So it must follow as the night follows a good long happy hour at a cheap bar with two-for-one drinks, that there is nothing more noble, more civilized or more indicative of progress with a capital P, than the practice of law. Full Story
Wrong Time to Lift the Embargo
In the wake of Fidel Castro's resignation, it is not difficult to find pundits dismissing the Cuban embargo as a Cold War relic supported only by a handful of old men in Little Havana, "hard-liners" who have somehow taken control of U.S. foreign policy between domino games at the nursing home. Full Story
Whose politics of fear?
Last month, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats struck back against "fear" and "fear-mongering." They let the terrorist surveillance program expire, thus making a stirring gesture of national self-confidence and fearlessness. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On March 6, 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, had been used for centuries in folk medicine. Full Story
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