{"id":5207,"date":"2004-12-22T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/22\/burning-the-yuleblog\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:06","slug":"burning-the-yuleblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/22\/burning-the-yuleblog\/","title":{"rendered":"burning the YuleBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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dark humor, <\/FONT>before I bring my oft-contagious holiday grumpiness back home <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"ooh   <\/FONT>So, if you came here looking for a Holiday Happy Face, please bear with me.      <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from dagosan<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wrapping and<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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packing–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT><\/EM>Rebecca Lilly<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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Snow tapering off . . .<\/DIV>
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at the graveyard, one tombstone<\/DIV>
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Moon slipping out of clouds–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the scent of smoke<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from mountain forest fires<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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An obituary<\/DIV>
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pale winter moon<\/DIV>
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Rebecca Lilly<\/FONT><\/A>  <\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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credits: “An obituary”  – edge of light<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>  (<\/FONT>Red Moon Anthology<\/EM> 2003<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/FONT>)<\/FONT>; Acorn<\/EM> 10<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/FONT>
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“Snow tapering off” — Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXX:2; <\/FONT>A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/DIV>
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“moon slipping –  A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT>; Modern Haiku<\/EM> XXX:3<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"wolf The Very First Ad Homonym<\/EM> Attack on Lawyers?<\/STRONG>  Is the equation “lawyer = liar” <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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bad publicity <\/FONT><\/FONT>or good marketing?  Ever since my <\/FONT>Grandpa Bart said<\/FONT><\/A> “Lawyers, liars, Bah!” when  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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he heard I was going to law school, I’ve been ambivalent.  It seems plain to me that our <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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puts a lot of pressure on lawyers to be less than fully candid.  Check out <\/FONT><\/FONT>J. Craig Williams<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and <\/FONT>Legal Blog Watch<\/FONT><\/A>‘s <\/FONT><\/FONT>Lisa Stone <\/FONT><\/A>on<\/FONT> lawyers as “spin doctors<\/EM>.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A Bag of EU Xmas Coal for Billie Gates<\/FONT><\/STRONG>:<\/FONT> As reported by IHT<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> via the <\/FONT>AntiTrustProf<\/FONT><\/A> notes, <\/FONT><\/FONT>“the <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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business practices woud cause irreparable harm to the company (particularly its patents, copyrights, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and trade secrets) and to its operations in Europe.”  Microsoft must immediately sell to computer makers <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a version of Windows without its Windows Media Player audiovisual software and share protocols with <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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rival makers of servers. See <\/FONT>AAI’s explanation<\/FONT><\/A> of why this is good for American consumers, too — it’s a<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Also Cool<\/EM><\/STRONG>: <\/FONT><\/FONT>The Immunities and Exemptions Working Group<\/FONT><\/A> of the <\/FONT>Antitrust Modernization Commission<\/FONT><\/A> has<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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recommended that the Baseball <\/EM>Common Law Exemption from the antitrust laws and the McCarran-Ferguson<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Act exemption for the “business of insurance<\/EM>” be studied by the Commission. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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