{"id":3718,"date":"2005-03-29T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/03\/29\/a-square-of-pale-grass\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:51","slug":"a-square-of-pale-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/03\/29\/a-square-of-pale-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"a square of pale grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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end of the holiday
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higher and higher<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"fishing  MATT MORDEN<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/DIV>
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“higher and higher” – tug of the current: <\/EM>Red Moon Anthology 2004; Haiku Canada Newsletter<\/EM> XVII: 1<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“end of the holiday” – Acorn<\/I> #3 (2001) & A New Resonance 2<\/EM> (Red Moon Press, 2001)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“first day of spring” – A New Resonance 2<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT>dagosan<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>                                              <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"tiny  I haven’t meant to be slighting <\/FONT>Steve Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A> the past few weeks,  \"jungle<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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but I’ll try to make it up to him and get to <\/FONT>one of my favorite<\/FONT><\/A> websites more often.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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cafeteria-conservative <\/FONT><\/A>Catholicism<\/FONT><\/A> (see <\/FONT>Steve<\/FONT><\/A>‘s <\/FONT>March 28 post at MoJ<\/EM><\/A><\/FONT>) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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can change that fact.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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– Is there anyone who doesn’t know just how tightly bunched together the top<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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really worry about a few rungs here and there on the Rankings ladder?  <\/FONT>UCLwhAt?<\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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having so little in savings or retirement plans, I’m a bit surprised that <\/FONT>Prof. B. is taking<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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such a Alfred E. Newmanesque stance on our savings rate.  Unless the formula Steve <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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that Americans are so poor at saving compared to the rest of the developed world.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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lawyer Gary I. Cohen<\/EM> last October, referring to the “Success Bonus” he was seeking, we asked<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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$300,000 Bonus,” March 28, 2005).<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on the similarity between contingency fees and success bonuses.  (via John at <\/FONT>Legal Ethics Forum<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

end of the holidaya square of pale grassbeneath the tent             first day of spring all the fly-fishing books out of the library               higher and higher on the trampoline spring rain           MATT MORDEN  “higher and higher” – tug […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-XY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13295,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/13295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}