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28 Nov, 2007 9:51 am
... . Most legal-writing types consider it a serious mistake. But in The Fight for English, David Crystal says we're bent out of shape over
nothing. No one ... , he says, would be confused here. It's obvious that an unnamed author is understood. Sure, dangling modifiers sometimes cause ambiguity: Surrounded by barbed
wire, armed soldiers guarded the ... that fixes what isn't broken, what isn't ambiguous. What do you think? David Crystal, The Fight for
English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left 153 ( ...
7 Dec, 2006 8:59 pm
... of law. The promised result is "By committing to pro bono service, an associate will become a better lawyer as well as a more valued member of the firm for which he works, and feel
good while doing it." B&S dangle the usual carrot of litigation experience for pro bono volunteers, whether it be oral argument for a
criminal client, or drafting "discovery requests and subpoenas" and "prepar[ing] witnesses for hearings and question[ing] these witnesses (and others) at a court hearing," when the ...
3 Apr, 2006 3:31 am
... flexibility only to modify the term and interest rate under a Chapter 13 plan. Carver, like the previous cases, notes many of the confusing and apparently sloppy drafting issues
presented by 1325(a): it has no alphanumeric designation and "merely dangles at the end of s. 1325(a)," and it omits the word "period" when it refers to "the 910-day [period]
preceding the date of the filing of the petition..." Unlike the other cases, though, Judge Walker in Carver finds that the provision of 1325(a)(*) ...
17 Oct, 2008 10:29 am
... private life is newsworthy. And it provides an illustration of how much info about a private citizen can be quickly ferreted out in a very brief period. Within 24 hours of the
Debate, Joe's records have been pulled and supposedly newsworthy tidbits are dangled before the public. Stop the presses, he's not really named Joe! It's Samuel J. Wurzelbacher!
What else is he hiding? He's a registered Republican (voters lists are public and he registered for the GOP to vote in the primary). Dig deeper! ...
23 Oct, 2008 5:21 am
... as it possibly could. A 7-year-old boy was in stable condition Saturday after he was injured in a Chirstmas parade, according to a hospital official. Jacob Johns was riding on the
St. Johns County Parks & Recreation Department float when his dangling feet got caught in the tires, pulling him down. The float drove over the boy's abdomen. He was taken to
Shands Jacksonville hospital for treatment. A nurse and rescue worker who were watching the procession in St. Augustine cared for the boy ...
28 Oct, 2008 12:47 pm
... , SOX can be an effective tool for protecting whistleblowers who are courageous enough to speak out against a company's illegal conduct. If you are or will soon become a
whistleblower, finding an attorney to effectively represent your interests may require that you invest some time. To ensure that your rights are fully protected, choose a law firm that
specializes in employment law. For more information, please visit The Wall Street Journal article entitled, Whistleblowers Are Left Dangling.
15 Sep, 2006 4:55 pm
... of an interior claque of administration lawyers, revolving around the relentless and, by nearly every account, genuinely obsessive David
Addington. In the academic quiet of my study, I sit with John Yoo's recent book, The Powers of War ... 's legion critics should never have been - and should not continue to be - baiting
them to do so by relentlessly dangling the threat of individual criminal liability over the heads of officials at the first breathless opportunity and as an alternative to
winning ...
30 Jan, 2008 3:50 am
... would bite, and presumably after the 14% showing in Florida he did), and dangled, more vaguely, SCOTUS-related possibilities for later on. 2. It seems that Edwards ran ... he
might be right there, in which case dropping out now and dangling an endorsement in front of the two front-runners is clearly the best use (maybe the only ... before I believed
Edwards dropping out helps Clinton (UPDATE: Political analyst David Gergen, on CNN: "The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama will pick up
maybe 60 ...
24 Mar, 2007 3:20 am
... Charley Casserly. Shame on you, too, Bob McNair. Maybe you guys were wrong about what David Carr could have been, but you never gave him a
chance to find ... [since-fired offensive coordinator Joe] Pendry took over [for the fired Chris Palmer]. David Carr looks like he's on his way
to becoming a first-rate quarterback. ... by not pressing the issue that Carr was an inadequate QB last year, Kubiak blew an opportunity to dangle the No. overall 1 pick during the 2006 NFL draft in a trade. A trade of that ...
25 May, 2008 7:54 am
... in Aberdeen eight years ago. "He described victims as chasing a pot of gold being dangled by lawyers. "It was such a gross betrayal of children like me." Sister Alphonso,
whose real name ... at St Margaret's Children's Home in Elie, Fife, James was raped by housemaster David Murphy. Murphy abused 40 kids and died
in 2003, months into a ... Weir, Renfrewshire. In 2002, Porteous, 75, was jailed for eight years - reduced to five on appeal. David, 49, said:
"Holocaust victims weren't time barred so why are ...
7 Sep, 2008 2:28 pm
... told of the blunder, which happened in July 2007."…. and adds that…. "Justice Minister David Hanson said he was "very angry" at the loss."
I am trying to picture how justice ... ringing up The Ministry of Justice to see if they had any pictures of David Hanson looking 'very angry'
and ever keen to hone my journalistic ... industrial scale (25 million records). A quick trip to Mr Google revealed that David Hanson is, on
the whole, a man with a cheery disposition - many photos of him laughing. I was able ...
26 Aug, 2007 1:38 pm
... photo became an iconic image of the 1991 Gulf war - a war in which media access was limited by Pentagon restrictions. By David Turnley The
Falling Man [2001] The powerful and controversial photograph provoked feelings of anger, particularly in the United States, in ... GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. The
photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932,
and it ...
13 Mar, 2006 9:06 am
... is that he, in classically European fashion, produces an elegant characterization of the issue, but then adamantly refuses to address the dangling question. What happens when
Muslims in Europe are not in the least grateful to Europe's atheists, despite Zizek's telling them ... if I did not, I could not look at myself in the mirror. A moral deed is by
definition its own reward. David Hume, a believer, made this point in a very poignant way, when he wrote that the only way to show true respect
for ...
18 Jun, 2007 12:43 pm
Troy Anthony Davis case attracts attention as possible Georgia execution date looms: David Elliot of NCADP notes here on the NCADP Abolish blog
the case of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis, whose case dangles before the US Supreme Court this week in a possibly final death-determining appeal - the outcome of
which will likely not be based on the glaring evidentiary problems in the case that have emerged since ...
6 Sep, 2007 11:10 pm
... , who promptly made a whopper of a blunder in his first significant personnel decision as Texans' coach -- the decision to retain David
Carr as the Texans QB. Inasmuch as a rank amateur such as me expressed doubts about Carr way back before Year Three, ... option bonus paid to Carr after the 2005 season, Kubiak's
decision to retain Carr effectively negated an opportunity to dangle the No. 1 pick in the 2006 NFL draft in a trade that probably would have
allowed the Texans to receive some much-needed ...
4 Oct, 2007 9:03 am
... captured in a subpar performance as a parent. Alec Baldwin recently called his 11-year-old daughter a "thoughtless little pig" in a voice mail; David Hasselhoff's 17-year-old daughter videotaped him lounging drunk on the floor of his Las Vegas hotel room, rambling and trying to eat a hamburger; and
Michael Jackson dangled his child out a window to show off to fans. Baldwin's custody case is still pending, but the other two men have retained ...
22 Oct, 2007 11:02 am
... . Yes, in Springfield, MA., a self-described witch is protesting a home owner's Halloween display that features a witch dangling from a noose, because she says it is a hate
crime that picks "on women, witches, and strong women in general". At one point ... else the authorities found here. Beware of scary Halloween spam. Related: Our recent chat and
exclusive interview with David Manning, Canadian filmmaker and star of "Spam: the Documentary". In Michigan, State Rep. Fran Amos (R)
introduced a bill ...
18 Dec, 2007 9:01 am
... you an apology. The Law Blog had every intention of buying that 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta but we were outbid by David
Rubenstein, the billionaire co-founder of private-equity giant Carlyle, who paid $21.3 million in a Sotheby's auction. It just doesn't seem ... the age of only 27. . . . Then, to
Rubenstein's surprise, Carter failed to win a second term. Lawyers who had once dangled job offers now didn't return Rubenstein's calls. He eventually hired on at the firm of
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & ...
1 May, 2008 2:08 pm
... by a jury on prostitution-related charges of money-laundering (among other things). Among her alleged clients are Louisiana Senator David
Vitter, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, and Harlan K. Ullman, a senior associate with the ... are judged equally on the basis of their achievements and missteps,
and gender is irrelevant. But, yet, the DC Madam was left dangling by her neck in some shed in Florida, while Vitter, Tobias, and Ullman are out there, happily employed, likely
soon ...
2 May, 2008 9:16 am
... by a jury on prostitution-related charges of money-laundering (among other things).Among her alleged clients are Louisiana Senator David
Vitter, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, and Harlan K. Ullman, a senior associate with the ... are judged equally on the basis of their achievements and missteps,
and gender is irrelevant. But, yet, the DC Madam was left dangling by her neck in some shed in Florida, while Vitter, Tobias, and Ullman are out there, happily employed, likely
soon to ...
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