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News Roundup 3.11.10
by SHJ
Eric Massa, the freshly resigned Congressman accused of groping and sexually harassing his male staffers, recently sparred with Larry King, bristling at King’s question as to whether Massa is gay. ”Here’s that answer: I’m not gonna answer that,” Massa replied, “In year 2010, why don’t you ask my wife? Ask my friends. Ask the 10,000 sailors that I served with in the navy.” Might want to run with a different tactic there, buddy. [HuffPost]
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Dating a lawyer? Be sure not to miss this new gem, then. Sorry. [Boing Boing]
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A few of Princeton’s bestest and brightest bankers-to-be have been interviewed in their college newspaper about the real reasons why 22-year-olds go into investment banking. Our favorite response, from Rebecca Yu ‘11: ”Money is an attractive factor, but it’s not the real reason people go into an investment bank,” she said, “[P]eople do it because they’re genuinely interested in [investment banking].” And then Yu unzipped her skin and asked for the nearest robot bus back to The Land Where Lying People Lie. And Are Crazy. [Daily Princetonian via Ivy Gate]
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“How to Justify a Frivolous Lawsuit” (or, “What to Do When Your Client Wants $100 Million to Prove She’s a Fictional Whore-Baby”). [THR, Esq.]
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You’re too late: While you were off dragging your heels, buying your little ones things like “formula” and “clothes” and “items that don’t require a visit from Social Services,” the Maryland company operating as Baby Beer Bottles, Inc., which sold 16-ounce baby bottles designed to look like Budweiser and Miller Lite bottles and marketed “for your little drinker,” has shut down their website after Anheuser-Busch filed a federal lawsuit this week claiming that the company infringes on its valuable trademarks. [The Smoking Gun]
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The seven 119 dirty words you can’t say in radio, at least according to shock-jock turned Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels. [Gawker]
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I should’ve seen this one coming, I know. I’ve had enough experience by now with sexual humiliation at the hands of Big Law to have known better. But no matter how seasoned, how street smart you may think you are, this one sneaks up on you without warning. One minute, you’re cruising along on a string of all-nighters for a fire-drill deal with a senior associate you know only well enough to find mildly repulsive; the next minute, you’re pinning him up against the wall of a file room with your Prada pencil skirt hiked up around your waist, clawing at each other like starved lunatics. The culprit: Deal Goggles. And let me assure you from recent personal experience, by the time you realize you’re wearing them, it’s way too late. [Read more] Read More →
