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Lloyd Constantine is the Founder and a partner at Constantine Cannon (C|C), specializing in antitrust litigation. Lloyd is one of the nation's leading antitrust litigators and authorities on competition policy. He has litigated at all levels of the federal and state courts, including oral argument before the United States Supreme Court. Lloyd's newsletter/blog "Hopelessly..
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8h ago
I haven’t closely followed Ivy League basketball since antiquity, when true scholar-athletes like Bill Bradley, Heyward Dotson (both Rhodes Scholars) and Jim McMillian led their teams into the NCAA season ending tourney and even its “final four”. The last Dartmouth ..read more
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8h ago
In Yiddish literally head of a Gentile and figuratively idiot. When the going gets tough you forget the basics. This time, regardless your opinion of Benjamin Netanyahu – pretty much the same as mine-[1] he is the elected president of a democracy and important ..read more
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3w ago
The apparent deadline for Democratic Party leaders to have the Goldwater to Nixon conversation with President Biden has passed. (See HL 177, 11/8/2023). The more extreme Tom Eagleton moment may never occur.[1] Now, the period between those two opportunities, is the ..read more
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1M ago
Back on the pavement thinkin about the idiocy of the false but prevalent view of the doctrine of proportionality under international law. And most specifically relative to Israel’s response to October 7 and America’s response to the January 28 drone attack by the ..read more
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2M ago
No American roughly my age, just north of 75, has not had a close relationship with the atomic bomb their entire life. Two had been dropped in the war concluded shortly before we were born. Their aftermath and surviving but mutilated victims constantly appeared in ..read more
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3M ago
Christmas Eve, I started counting all the Israel/Hamas war coverage in the New York Times digital edition, including articles about collateral damage, such as the Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard. I stopped at 25 and circled back to two that raised questions similar to ..read more
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4M ago
Forced today to place a wager on a Biden v. Trump contest in 2024, I would bet on Joe and by a decent margin, notwithstanding recent polls saying he trails in five of the six key swing states. But now those who’ve seen Oppenheimer or read American Prometheus must ..read more
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5M ago
Though the world’s attention has shifted to the Middle East from Republican Party dysfunction and its putative 2024 presidential nominee, that secondary concern still must be dealt with. By considering what it would mean for U.S. foreign policy and military alliances ..read more
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6M ago
The atrocity de la semaine in the scolding and scalding progressive media was committed by Jann Wenner, co-founder and former owner of Rolling Stone Magazine and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2004. Within a nanosecond of ..read more
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6M ago
Yesterday, as every September 11, I watched the televised photos of all the September 11, 2001 victims as their names were read by relatives at the annual memorial ceremony held at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. As always, the experience was intensely emotional ..read more