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...largest tourist agency, thinks of everything -- including an excuse for customers to make a trip. No one appreciates that more than legislators from Saitama Prefecture, who take annual "fact finding" trips to Europe. Besides arranging every aspect of those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin veneer of originality, names and dates are changed each year. Yet every report...
True enough, but the basis for the deployment of nearly 100,000 U.S. troops -- so far -- on Saudi territory is defined in a memorandum just three pages long. Not only is the document "extremely general," according to those who have read it, but it is being kept secret at the request of the Saudi government. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who negotiated it in Jidda last month, described it as a "sort of" status-of-forces agreement, something that usually takes the form of a treaty...
...acted illegally when they fired into a crowd of black protesters last March, killing five people and wounding 200. The direct cause of the shootings was a lack of discipline and control over the ranks, said the report, and the commission recommended that the officers be prosecuted. In another memorandum, prominent church leaders charged that police helped stir up the recent black rampages in the townships around Johannesburg that left more than 500 people dead...
Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make...
...chambers vary, but the short answer is no, if you have in mind the final opinion. I'll be glad to describe what I usually did: before the case was argued, having read the briefs, I would write a memorandum myself in which I summarized how I thought the case should be decided and how the opinion should be written. I would give that to a law clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form...