Defense lawyers know how important it is to try to counter the initial wave of negative publicity about their clients, especially corporate chieftains who are often perceived by the public as guilty until proven innocent.
The Court of Public Opinion is not necessarily the same tribunal before which a defendant must defend himself or herself.
Ben Bernacke, Tim Geitner and Sheila Bair are still in office, but Hank (the “Tank”) Paulson is on the beach and the newly published author of this inside-the-Beltway first-person I-was-there.
So, what do you get the man who has everything? We can safely assume that Paulson, the CEO of Goldman Sachs at the time, was well [...]
One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news. Newspaper writers are [...]
The theory is undeniably crazy — but not crackpot, which is a distinction worth drawing.
Missing from the global warming debate, at least from the popular accounts, is the question of choice. Assuming we could set the global thermostat anywhere we wanted to, where should we set it? What is the right setting, and why? Qui bono? Who gets a say? What if we can’t agree? What if the northern [...]