{"id":5065,"date":"2004-10-12T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/12\/who-do-you-want-columbus-to-b"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:21","slug":"who-do-you-want-columbus-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/12\/who-do-you-want-columbus-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"who do you want Columbus to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Florida Museum of Natural History<\/font><\/a>\u00a0has an informative page about Christopher Columbus<\/font>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
In his article\u00a0<\/font><\/font>Columbus: Hero or Heel?<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Vista<\/em>, March 1991) , <\/font>author William <\/font>F. Keegan concludes:<\/font><\/div>\n
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Columbus?\u00a0 <\/font>. . . Who do you want him to be?<\/font>“<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Picking one’s own biographer can sometimes be a wise career move; but we have little control of our<\/font><\/div>\n
image over the centuries.\u00a0\u00a0Sorry, Bill and Hillary.\u00a0 <\/font>(Thanks to Martin Grace for <\/font>the <\/font>reminder<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>pointer<\/font><\/a> <\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
to LOC’s Oct. 12 page.)<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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Speaking of crayons (and Domino’s<\/font><\/a>), Evan Schaeffer<\/a> spotlights the “ill-conceived” child support\u00a0poster program in Michigan.\u00a0\u00a0 Please pay your child support, and don’t put your Children in the Middle<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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There is a very thoughtful article in Law Practice Management<\/em> magazine for lawyers interested <\/font>in alternative billing, whose clients are “less sophisticated” buyers of legal services <\/font>— i.e., <\/em>consumers <\/font>or small businesses: <\/font>Alternative Billing for the \u201cMain Street Lawyer<\/font><\/a>\u201d (by\u00a0James A Calloway and Mark <\/font>A. Robertson, Sept. 2004).\u00a0 Its conclusion:<\/font><\/div>\n
This quest can lead to an office where the clients are more informed and more certain about <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
the fees they will pay, where more information about the progress of a matter flows regularly <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
to the client, where the client is given realistic goals and expectations by which to measure the <\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
lawyer\u2019s delivery of services, where the lawyer is more confident that matters are being handled<\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
efficiently, and where the lawyer is rewarded for efficiency by increased profitability.<\/em><\/font> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

— Asked to comment on lawyer dignity and the (800) PIT-BULL controversy, Scheherazade has replied<\/a> with her usual practical good sense.<\/p>\n

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Columbus Day trip<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 It’s real Columbus Day!\u00a0\u00a0 Who was the real Columbus?\u00a0 What was his real name? The Florida Museum of Natural History\u00a0has an informative page about Christopher Columbus.\u00a0\u00a0 In his article\u00a0Columbus: Hero or Heel?\u00a0(Vista, March 1991) , author William F. Keegan concludes: “For over 500 years there has been only one answer to the question, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","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-1jH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13583,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/13583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}