Month: January 2014

Like many of my peers, I’ve been interested in politics–the “art of controlling your environment”, as one Hunter Stockton Thompson used to […]

Don’t miss this article at Richard Lewis’s consistently-excellent Cross-Culture: “Russia and the EU“. Excerpt: What is remarkable about Russians is that they […]

See “French President Francois Hollande Announces Breakup with First Lady Valerie Trierweiler” in The Daily Beast. French Actress Julie Gayet, 41.

Chalk up a victory and some trail-blazing for rocker Courtney Love. On its unusual facts, and given somewhat implausible testimony on both […]

The Wild West Show that is still the blogosphere can get ugly. There are some rough spots. Apart from law that governs […]

To bring us up to date on cumulative reaction to the now infamous page 4, lines 10-12 of the SCOTUS transcript in […]

In international arbitration and mediation, first-language barriers can be the least of your client’s difficulties. How does a mediator or arbitrator arrive […]

Nigeria, where sodomy has been illegal for decades, just raised the stakes. This week Africa’s largest nation begins enforcement of a popular […]

Are you serious about all that client service stuff on your website? Then talk about real customer service every single day, as […]

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good […]

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. –Henry Kissinger, quoted in The New York Times Magazine, June […]