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25 Nov, 2008 12:48 pm
With banking giants such as Citigroup receiving billion-dollar bailouts, it seems unlikely that anyone would dare form a new financial services company these days. But Thomas H.
Lee, the billionaire private equity investor, and private equity firm Genstar Capital announced Tuesday that they are investing $500 million to
set up a new commercial finance firm that [...]
7 Apr 11:28 am
... story, even though there's not much to it. When I was at the Council of Economic Advisers in the last year of the Reagan Administration, Tom Ricks was covering financial markets for the Wall Street Journal, I think. This was before he switched over to covering ... a reliable anonymous source
inside the White House who would bitch about how the boat was adrift and heading toward the lee shore of liberalism. It was, and saying so was
worth doing; it's how the game is played. It annoyed some people, ...
3 May 1:58 pm
... midget within range to take a shot at her. The Fighting Irish get their name from the Irish Brigade that fought for the Union during the Civil War. One version I read said the
author of the moniker "the Fighting Irish" was an expert in martial virtue no less than Robert E. Lee himself. Here is a picture of the
Fighting Irish about to engage the Confederacy in dialog at Gettysburg: Story of the picture here. Father Corby, the Brigade chaplain pictured, went on to become President of Notre
Dame.
1 Nov 5:51 pm
Featured Broker sponsored link FORT LEE, N.J., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association today released the following
statement to its http://inflation.us members: "While most mainstream economists such as Nouriel Roubini are warning of deflationary threats to the U.S. economy, it is our belief that
massive price inflation has already begun. The Federal Reserve's policy of massive monetary inflation in 2009 has caused the Dow Jones to bounce over 50% from its low, oil to rise ...
14 Feb, 2007 9:50 pm
... . About 20 percent of the professors declared a boycott of the poll, contending that plagiarism allegations should not be resolved by a vote. Lee graduated from Seoul National University in engineering [SNU is the school where Hwang Woo Suk was during the stem cell ... somebody else's words, the
best defense I can frame is, of course, in somebody else's words. Namely, Tom Lehrer's. Specifically, his ditty in honor of the great
mathematician Lobachevsky. For the full effect, Professor Lehrer's aria ...
10 Jun 4:37 am
... political bargaining chips. "Convicting" Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee of illegally crossing into North Korea and
sentencing them to 12 years at ... -Il get up on the wrong side of the bed, thereby jeopardizing the lives of Ling and Lee -- or possibly ours
with his threats of using nuclear weapons. But if women -- ... squeaky wheel, more people will talk about it. You can be sure if it was Anderson Cooper or Tom Brokaw in that North Korean prison, we wouldn't even have to talk about ...
4 Dec, 2007 1:23 pm
... [Asher] attempted to influence any purchases or other decisions by the county. I especially don't think F. Lee Bailey will be happy to be
declared dead. Asher's friends span the spectrum from Rudy Giuliani to Jesse Jackson ... included Giuliani, Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge. (my emphasis.) As far as I know, F. Lee Bailey is still alive. [More...] Also, it turns
out Bailey was his lawyer in the early drug investigation. The article calls them "friends" ...
26 Jan, 2007 6:30 am
Lee Brown, a former Houston mayor who also was police chief of Houston, Atlanta and New York, is on the way to help rescue New Orleans from its
vicious crime problem. ... that pesky writer's block. Fellow blawger and longtime Houston resident, Tom Kirkendall, is speechless and asks
"does New Orleans really need this?" Probably not ... and maybe we need some guidance on how to implement this. But I'm suspicious about whether Lee Brown is the right guy (how much is he going to charge us for his services?) ...
25 Mar, 2008 11:02 am
As many of you may recall, from our prior coverage of him, Jonathan Lee Riches is in a South Carolina prison until 2012 for wire fraud and
conspiracy. He's ... .S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia have been filed by one man: Jonathan Lee Riches. Among the
defendants to his 192 suits are former New York Gov. Eliot ... -Jones; musicians Cyndi Lauper and Eddie Van Halen; and Braves pitcher Tom
Glavine. Riches has alleged that Eliot Spitzer "used the fines [from corporate convictions] to ...
26 Sep, 2007 7:12 pm
Jonathan Lee Riches© (known on Dreadnaught as the JLR) has filed his most recent complaint against the New England Patriots, for "Illegally
Spying On My Life." The text of the complaint is as follows: 1 Since the 1970's Bill Belichick and Defendant's have been in a vast conspiracy with video equipment to illegally tape
anything [...]
1 Apr, 2008 11:20 am
... filing in the Northern District of Georgia. From the Fulton County Daily Report: The federal court filing spree launched by Jonathan Lee
Riches, a pro se inmate who has barraged courts around the country with some 1,500 handwritten suits, is coming to a halt- ... actors Anne Heche, Michael Douglas and Catherine
Zeta-Jones; musicians Cyndi Lauper and Eddie Van Halen; and Braves pitcher Tom Glavine. In one case, he alleged that actress Molly Ringwald
"said she is going to turn me into a redhead and … ...
16 Apr, 2007 5:38 am
Tom Gallanis (Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Director, WL Center for Law and History, Washington and Lee University School of Law) has accepted a position as a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, effective July 1,...
3 Oct, 2008 8:24 pm
... employee, Paul Ashley, pleaded guilty to the attacks and has already served a two-year prison term, while Echouafni skipped out on $750,000 bail and is now believed to be hiding out
in Morocco, where he was born. Alleged botmaster Lee Graham Walker, of the United Kingdom, was charged alongside Echouafni in the original
federal complaint in 2004. On Thursday federal prosecutors in Los Angeles turned that into a formal indictment (.pdf), perhaps clearing the way for extradition proceedings. At the ...
23 Feb, 2007 12:02 pm
[Tom Lee is a professor of law at Fordham Law School.]...
6 Oct, 2008 12:53 pm
Tom Lee makes an interesting point about the satellite case I wrote about on Saturday: the problem
facing EchoStar and other satellite manufacturers is strikingly similar to the challenges that have been faced for many years by video game console ... them to play illicit copies of
copyrighted video games. It's unclear exactly how the DMCA applies in this kind of case. But as Tom notes, this dilemma is likely to get more
common over time. As hardware gets cheaper and more powerful, companies are ...
16 Oct, 2008 4:16 am
... place. Matt's post prompted a number of interesting responses. Ryan Avent chimed in with some thoughts about how self-driving technologies would make urban living more attractive.
On the other hand Tom Lee offers a counterpoint: making car travel cheaper and more convenient will,
on the margin ... , and it's not clear how these factors would balance out. But even if Tom is right, this wouldn't be an entirely bad thing.
Increased mobility is a virtue in its own right. I think ...
6 Nov, 2008 7:45 am
Tom Lee wonders about a question that Ed has pondered in the past: how much bandwidth does one human
being need? I'm suspicious of estimates of exploding per capita bandwidth consumption. Yes, our bandwidth needs will continue to increase. But the human nervous system has its own
bandwidth limits, too. Maybe there'll be one more video resolution revolution - HDTV2, let's say (pending the invention of a more confusing acronym). But to go beyond that will require
video walls - they look cool ...
22 Dec, 2008 6:48 pm
My friend Tom Lee has been pestering the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the agency
that runs the DC area's public transit system, to publish its schedule data in an open format. That will allow companies like Google to include the information in products like Google
Transit. It seems that Google has been negotiating with WMATA for months to get access to the data, and the negotiations recently broke down, depriving DC-area transit users of the
opportunity to use ...
20 Nov 10:01 pm
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is one of the best Texas novels of our time. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was later made into a wonderful television mini-series, which starred Robert
Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as the iconic former Texas Rangers, Gus McRae and Woodrow Call. One of the best scenes from the mini-series -- and
arguably one of the best scenes ever produced for television -- is the scene in which Gus dies after being badly injured in an Indian ambush. After searching for his ...
12 Jun, 2007 11:00 pm
... Berkman's this season, but not all that great by league leader standards. Moreover, Lee's high number of RBI's (52) is largely the result
of where he hits in ... bench these days. Even Luke Scott, who has a 3 RCAA for the season, is about as productive as Lee, while Mark Loretta
-- who most folks believe has been much more ... are generally going to produce the most runs for the team. The Stros need to play Berkman, Lee, Ensberg, Scott, and Hunter Pence regularly, fill in the other spots with the most ...
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