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5 Sep, 2008 5:20 am
... While I have not done a historical study of the McCain phenomenon, my guess is that Lewis is the one responsible for this senator's leap
into the national consciousness. If John ... Fever" got him started. Recently, however, I have been wondering if Michael Lewis still has the same sense of McCain as the maverick he so admired. ... achieve his political dreams. Dole's campaign, seen through the eyes of
Lewis, was a Greek tragedy -- the foreordained failure of a noble man who has traded his principles ...
12 Sep, 2007 10:49 pm
Michael Lewis was one of this week's Authors @Google (that link should have his visit online in a few
days), and I'm really glad I went. I picked up a ... it tonight: it's as good a book as you'll read this year. It's ostensibly about Michael
Oher, an abandoned child from the Memphis ghetto who, through a variety of circumstances, is adopted by a wealthy, ... 's story turns out. But it's Lewis's fascination with Michael's evolution from one of society's least valued members (a homeless, abandoned child
...
22 Aug 5:09 am
Yesterday we reported on a fatal accident involving a vehicle operated by Michael Lewis and another
vehicle operated by Dacota Dow. A State investigation is underway. The Bangor Daily News reported that the impacted occurred ... this accident will be able to determine with a great
degree of accuracy how this accident occurred. The fact that the accident occurred in Mr. Lewis' lane would strongly indicate that the other
driver, Dacota Dow, was at fault for the accident. Also, if the evidence shows ...
13 Nov, 2008 1:07 am
Michael Lewis, author of the long-selling book, Liar's Poker, offers a magazine-style account of some
of the factors provoking the current financial crisis. It is a delightfully literary contribution that will likely appeal to those ... market of side bets that those bonds would indeed
default packaged into bonds backed by bettors' wagers. Mr. Lewis reports a story based on interviews with several people who participated in
this casino. Its substantive elements can be summarized as follows.
31 Mar, 2007 1:10 am
A few weeks ago I finished reading Michael Lewis' The Blind Side, a book that starts quickly with a
rapid-fire account of the 4.5 second play that ended Joe Theismann ... the gruesome image of Theismann's leg bone being snapped. Football is a strange sport, Lewis observes, in that none of the players ever sees more than a narrow slice of action. ... Few of us ever get a wide-angle view of circumstances, and only
someone like Lewis can connect the dots to create a bunch of fascinating social observations. ...
27 Sep, 2008 4:31 pm
I have been sending around a PDF version of this article recently and for some reason I didn't expect it to be on the web. Michael
Lewis engages his family (wife and 3 kids) and rents a $13,000/month mansion to study the real cause of the sub-prime mess. He makes the
complex simple by using children to illustrate his points. My favorite line? "Children are basically communists." Thanks to Al Robert (as usual) for finding it online.
2 Jan 10:49 am
... , what possible connection can this game have to the world of business, law, economics and society? Michael Lewis, who incidentally has a new book on financial downturns, Panic, wrote a (very, very good) book on Ole Miss left tackle Michael Oher, The Blind Side, and a longish NYT Magazine article on Red Raider coach Mike Leach. Pretty big coincidence, and of course the reasons that drove
Lewis to write about these two sportsmen should make for a pretty good bowl game. Go Red ...
21 Aug 7:01 am
Michael Lewis of Bass Harbor was killed in the crash that occurred near the Rumill Road intersection.
Lewis was driving a pickup truck that crashed head-on with another pick-up truck. The other truck was operated by Dacota Dow, 19, of Bar
Harbor. Authorities reported that the two vehicles collided in the center of the road. Two passengers in Lewis' vehicle, Erin Hanley, a
teenager from Tremont, and her brother Patrick, 10, were taken by ambulance to MDI Hospital in Bar ...
29 Aug 5:50 am
We noted in previous blog entries the tragic death of Michael Lewis on Route 102 in Tremont. Lisa
Skiff Renault has been joined by more than 750 others urging local teen drivers to slow down and act responsibly behind the wheel. ... promote safe driving among MDI High School
students on Monday afternoon, shortly after she returned from Mr. Lewis' funeral at the Tremont Community Center. "I started this because I'm
tired of going to these funerals," she said. The ...
28 Jul, 2008 10:44 am
It's a bit harsh, but I have to admit I enjoyed Michael Lewis's rant on golf. Golf can be fun, of
course, in the same sense as target practice, but I wouldn't really consider something a "sport" unless the participants regularly find themselves gasping for breath. It somewhat
reminds me of this recent study, which found that people who read muscle magazines while on an exercise bike don't get the same mood improvement from exercise as do ...
12 Nov, 2008 8:36 pm
... of months ago I described the current financial crisis as "the wake up call for corporate governance," predicting that "the financial industry will return, in a way, to its
partnership roots." The longer reasoning is in my Uncorporating the Large Firm. So I read with interest Michael Lewis' words of wisdom in Portfolio: No investment bank owned by its employees would have levered itself 35 to 1 or bought and held $50 billion in ...
27 Nov, 2006 11:16 am
In this Sunday's N.Y. Times, Michael Lewis reviews Karen DeYoung's new biography of Colin Powell.
Describing the book, Lewis notes that it is "as revealing as it can be and remain flattering, and as flattering as it ... sympathetic to
Powell's flaws and that she "leaves the reader with the sense that Colin Powell was a good man in a bad administration." From Lewis's
perspective, however, Powell has consistently manifested a willingness to be a good "soldier" to better his career while manifesting ...
30 Sep 9:04 am
... payback the money that was taken.) Courtroom Dramatics and Trial Judge's Warning to Lewis This was bittersweet for the prosecutors, since
they'd spend countless hours tediously going ... legally an attorney. Not only did the State Bar of Texas disbar Tiffany Lewis, but they
ordered her to payback her clients $58,225, plus ... gave to the legal profession, the judiciary, or the system of justice as a whole. In 60 days, Tiffany Lewis will be out of jail. She's probably gonna have a happy Christmas dinner ...
4 Jan 10:34 pm
... plane back from remote Canada, I got a chance to read Michael Lewis and David Einhorn's massive
lecture on what went wrong regarding the financial imbroglio. Maybe ... and turned it into an Op Ed - the piece is anecdotey and pat. I like Lewis, and other people like Einhorn, but:· Most of all, the theme bespeaks ... deal with corruption reasonably well.· Still, corruption is the theme here.
Einhorn and Lewis think that the problem with the credit rating agencies is that they are paid by those they rate ...
12 Jan, 2008 12:32 pm
SOWDERS V. HON. THOMAS LEWIS CIVIL PROCEDURE: EXPERT DISQUALIFICATION AND CONSULTING EXPERTS WRIT OF MANDAMUS2007-SC-000043-MR.pdf PUBLISHED:
AFFIRMING IN PART, REVERSING IN PART OPINION: SCOTT; CUNNINGHAM DISSENTS BY SEP. OP. ... miscarriage of justice. Additionally, this result removes any possibility of circumstances
occurring at trial where Dr. Bonnarens might inadvertently blurt out, "I reviewed the case for the plaintiffs before it was filed and told them there was no claim." Michael Stevens
19 Dec, 2008 1:21 am
Here is one in what will be a series of posts to recent articles that were spotted for Legal History Blog by Mr. Robert Richards. They all appear in journals in the Project Muse
database and are accessible on-line to institutional or personal subscribes. Michael Lewis, Access to
Saloons, Wet Voter Turnout, and Statewide Prohibition Referenda, 1907-1919, 32 SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY 373 (2008).
18 Mar 6:42 am
The following releases from the AOC: Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason and Robertson
counties Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Grayson County Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Kenton County These announcements
provide a contrast with previous stories over SB 68 regarding adoption and foster care and the financial implications of the proposed legislation which did not get approved: ...
21 Sep 8:18 pm
Industrial Risk Insurers v. Giddings & Lewis, Inc. 2007-CA-002163 07/02/2009 2009 WL 1884386 DR Pending Opinion by Judge Keller; Judges
Clayton and Lambert concurred. The Court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded a circuit court order granting summary judgment to appellees on appellants' tort claims related
to damage to a lathe, material handling system and vertical machining centers manufactured by appellees. The Court held that the circuit court correctly determined that the ...
4 Oct, 2007 10:16 am
... C.-based head of the global trademark and copyright practice at Morgan Lewis. "This is George Clooney, er, I mean, Michael Clayton," he said from his home in Myrtle Beach, ... I made a movie about a movie star named George Clooney and the trailers blared . .
"Michael Clayton is George Clooney!" Clooney plays a fixer at a big corporate law firm. ... the sale of IP and then the post-closing transfer
of the IP. Sorry to say, Michael, that doesn't sound to us like the stuff about which movies are made. You' ...
22 Oct 4:26 pm
... He implored us to reconnect with our families. In the newly re-released book by Michael, Moonwalking, there is a haunting passage: I
believe performers should try to be strong as an example ... most cherished creators of children's literature, from J.R.R. Tolkien to CS Lewis.
Today I was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in Christ Church to see ... beautiful music together. God bless you, and I love you. Listen to Michael Jackson's Oxford Speech below: Related posts: A Plea to Parents from a Divorce ...
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