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Malpractice Lawsuits Aren’t Just About Money
I saw the caller-ID and immediately picked up the phone; it was an old friend from college. “I want to sue a doctor and I want to sue the hospital,” said Karen. Sadly, I hear those words all too often....
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We Need Ships
Pirates are once again threatening merchant ships off the coast of Africa. But now, most of the attacks are coming not off the eastern coast near Somalia, but in the Atlantic along the west coast near...
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Willful Avoidance
“News is what I say it is,” said Charles Foster Kane, the legendary, eponymous, (though fictional) press baron. Sadly, today’s media bosses also dictate what is not news by failing to cover important...
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Taking Sides in the Amazon-Hachette Battle
“You’ll never work in this town again!” My agent’s exact words were a bit different, but the message was clear: if I weighed in on Amazon’s side in its battle with Hachette, no publisher would ever...
View ArticleThe People’s Courts
This is a true story. A well-known telecommunications company we’ll call WKTC missed its service appointment. Actually, it missed four appointments in a three-week period. Plus it took me hours to...
View ArticleOn Tort Reform, It’s Time to Declare Victory and Withdraw
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Verbal (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects The second greatest trick may be the insurance industry’s success in...
View ArticleHigher Ed’s Perfect Storm
Colleges are facing a perfect storm that could shutter hundreds of them and leave many more wondering how to survive. Yet much of higher education’s leadership is in denial that anything is amiss. The...
View ArticleThe Secret Quotas In College Admissions
A coalition of 64 Asian-American groups has filed a complaint against Harvard for discriminating against Asian-American kids in admissions. They’re right to assume there is a quota system at work. But...
View ArticleWhat They Don’t Teach You At Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame, Michigan And Stanford
Congratulations! You’ve made it into college, and whether it was your first choice or your safety really doesn’t matter. Colleges are loathe to admit this, but the “prestige” of the school has almost...
View ArticleHow to Level the Playing Field in College Admission
Harvard’s Graduate School of Education says it’s time for a kinder, gentler college admissions process. In a recent report—endorsed by 85 educational institutions—the school claims we should...
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