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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL DEAN RESIGNS

Hasta La Vista, Baby.

In a move that shocked some alumni, Dean David W. Leebron announced that he was leaving CLS to become President of Rice University.

Dean since 1997, Leebron had been a polarizing force on the law school campus, early in his tenure. After ending school-wide e-mails and approving merit-based scholarships, reversing CLS’s tradition of funding only need-based scholarships, he endured much criticism from the acclaimed Columbia Law School News.

Leebron also oversaw the renovation of CLS’s infrastructure and an increase in the school’s endowment.

“I have been appointed President of Rice University effective July 2004. I am excited by this new opportunity, but sad that I will be leaving
Columbia, which has been my home for the past 15 years. We have achieved an enormous amount during these years. Our recruitment of
dynamic and accomplished scholars from across the nation (and indeed
the world) has been extraordinary, with eight new faculty joining us in the
past year alone,” Leebron wrote in a letter to alumni.

“I can’t believe it. I wish I could write the article about this,” said a former Law School News staff person.

No replacement for Leebron has been announced.

Dude! Unsportsman Schunsportsman

30,000 bucks?

The NYT reports:

“New Orleans Saints receiver Joe Horn was fined $30,000 by the NFL on Tuesday for making a choreographed cell-phone call in the end zone to celebrate a touchdown.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed the amount of the fine. Horn’s agent, Ralph Vitolo, said the player will appeal.

Fining him is one thing, but to me that’s very excessive. This is not a murder case, Vitolo said.”

Can you hear me now?

My dollar, my dream

Yes, I play the lottery.
I play it anytime the payout goes above 70 million dollars. AND THEN… I play it a lot!
Kashei mocks me, of course (she is very, very mean) and my friends from college call it the “stupid tax,” as in a tax on the stupid. The lovely lefties call it the “poor tax.”

But the lottery, to me, is none of those things. It’s (thankfully) just a game. Not just the number picking and ticket checking, but the daydreaming about what I’d do with the money (a month long stay in Canyon Ranch tops the list!) or where’d I go (or where I’d tell the mean bossman to go.) It’s an exercise in hope and promise with just a little bit of superstition rolled in. For a little while I imagine me as my best self, free of the worry and uncertainity of a wall street professional with a crap load of debt in a sputtering economy who lives with her mom just west of the ghetto.
So, although Yolanda Vega may not call out my numbers on TV during the news, I still win everytime I play.
That…. or I’m an addict in denial.
No, I’m not.

I wonder if they sell stock in Diane Sawyer?

Last night’s interview with El Presidente was awesome! I thought Bush did well and came off very humble and presidential (I know, I know), but Sawyer was relentless and did some good work cornering Bush on the disclosed intelligence leading up to the war. (It reminded me of Gary Condit’s “I can’t answer that out of respect for the Levy family” response, except Diane has a better sense of when to move on than Connie Chung.)

Oooh and how great was the look Laura Bush gave him on the “bring them on” comment?

Any lawyers out there know?

What was the age of consent in South Carolina in 1925?

Sometimes I wish…

Democrats would stop being such nice guys

SLACKER

I will be blogging lightly today. I’m about to go on vacation and I haven’t started my Christmas shopping, finished writing that brief point, or finished reviewing 2/3 boxes. I’m screwed, screwed, screwed. Anyway, by way of news: The wizbang poll is over; Clareified lost, lost, lost. Now, I’ve got to buy bottles of alcohol and a robot for gifts. See ya tomorrow.

$20,000 bonuses? Brings tears to your eyes…

It’s all a matter of perspective.

The Liberal Media my arse or Reason #719 that I despise Katie Couric

“Bottom line General, Is Iraq better off with Saddam Hussein in power or in a jail cell?”

In an interview with General Wesley Clark (D?) this morning.

It’s the eleventh day of Christmas

How about voting for Clareified , instead of the traditional turtledoves?

Or, contributing to the economic recovery, one present for Clareified, at a time?