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...Janeiro has a reputation for being a libertine playground, but the city's tourist board has been acting a bit uptight. Riotur has threatened to sue the Fox network over an episode of The Simpsons in which the family visits Brazil. While there, Bart is ingested by a boa constrictor, Homer is kidnapped by a taxi driver and monkeys roam the streets. Perhaps most insulting, the show suggests Brazil is responsible for the Macarena (the dance comes from Spain). Riotur spent $18 million promoting the city last year and doesn't want it to go to waste, though bringing attention...
...movies like Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, we see lawyers (or in Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary) bravely sacrificing their careers and their financial resources to sue evil, polluting corporations on behalf of cancer-stricken children. Naturally, we root for the families and for their plucky lawyers over the attorneys for the corporations, who are portrayed as either wily and corrupt or idiotic and corrupt. While the movies end differently, we’re meant to see that justice involves large punitive damages for the families of the sick children...
Harvard has its own overzealous lawyer, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who has announced his intention to sue Harvard and other universities for reparations for slavery. The claim is not only morally specious—primarily because of the distance in time from the crimes in question and because of the lack of anyone identifiable who was even indirectly complicit—but also hatefully disingenuous in its target of Harvard, an institution that through affirmative action has benefited thousands of living African-Americans, and whose Afro-American studies department is the world leader. More important...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and his Reparations Coordinating Committee have announced they may sue a number of corporations because of their historical profit from slavery. The defendants may include such august institutions as Yale University, Brown University and our own Harvard. This lawsuit is modeled on the lawsuits brought by the families of Jewish victims of the Holocaust against companies such as Swiss and Austrian banks...
...favorite are the parents who usher in children barely old enough to know how to spell the word “college,” let alone know about getting in to one. They bring little Jenny or Sue up to the counter where I sit trying my hardest not to glare disapprovingly, and they motion to the child that it’s okay to begin the rehearsed questions...