During the "yuppie period" of the late 1980's investment banking began to take the "cream of the crop", meaning the top 10% of prestigious law schools and business schools alike. In 1984 $50,000 or so (from memory, maybe my numbers are wrong) was a top-tiered salary for a first year associate in a major law firm. That mushroomed to $200,000 or so (again from memory) by 1990, in response to "competition" from investment banks. In fact, a close friend left the practice...

Most bullies' lives don't turn out well. It is easy to pick on people when they are young; the only consequence is possible discipline. In life though these people don't retain jobs. People just don't want to work with them.

Even though I applauded (softly) I really wish the story had a happier ending.As a bankruptcy lawyer I take pride in giving people second chances and in rehabilitation. And in many ways I am sad to hear Charlie died of drug abuse. I would rather he would have...

‘They Eat Money’: How Graft Enriches Mandela’s Political Heirs And this is a worthy target for financial and development aid?

Is this someone's idea of a bad joke? We're supposed to allocate foreign aid to South Africa to rectify "decades of white/apartheid" oppression? Apartheid ends, majority rule begins, the world rejoices. Watch it squandered away.

This is not how I want my tax dollars spent.

Why Dogs Really Do Love You, According to Science

This article explains that dogs trigger in the human brain positive reactions, much the way babies do. Same with people on dogs' brains. It's no surprise, given that dogs and humans have co-evolved. To my way of thinking we wouldn't have evolved in the manner we have without dogs; both for pragmatic reasons that they guard and work, and for emotional reasons that they give unconditional love and support.

Mirielle Kroll, an 85 year old Holocaust survivor was murdered by neighbors alleged because she was Jewish. The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France. She was stabbed 11 times and then left to die in her house, which the killers set ablaze. This was not the only such incident. An Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties was thrown out of the window of her Paris flat by a neighbor shouting “Allahu Akhbar.”Thousands march in Paris in memory of murdered Holocaust survivor....