{"id":4337,"date":"2006-01-24T20:51:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/24\/speak-barry\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:13","slug":"speak-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/24\/speak-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"speak, Barry!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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of never-seen-here poems by <\/FONT>Barry George<\/FONT><\/A> — found at Dietmar <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Tauchner’s <\/FONT>Bregengemme<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> website (where you’ll also find Guest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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pages by <\/FONT>Peggy Lyles<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>Ed Markowski<\/FONT><\/A>, among others, as <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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well as haiku auf Deutsch<\/EM>).<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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boy watching<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Barry George<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> –<\/FONT><\/EM>  <\/FONT>Bregengemme<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> Guest<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“dining out” – <\/FONT>Paper Wasp<\/EM> (Spring 2004) <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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David Maister<\/FONT><\/A>,   In a post dated Jan. 23, 2006, <\/FONT>David asks<\/FONT><\/A>: <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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height of mankind’s achievement in civilization? I have spent <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a more civil and economicallyfunctioning society”).  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in <\/FONT>fee fie foe and fum<\/FONT><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“If young lawyers want to work saner schedules but don’t <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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We just found them last night and can’t wait to share a stash of never-seen-here poems by Barry George — found at Dietmar Tauchner’s Bregengemme website (where you’ll also find Guest pages by Peggy Lyles and Ed Markowski, among others, as well as haiku auf Deutsch).   after our quarrel mousetraps grimly loaded for the night   […]<\/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-4337","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-17X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","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=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}