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Crime is under better control than it was 30 years ago, but recession era cuts to police budgets threaten the status quo.
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Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa demonstrates three potential scenarios for a wannabe “do-gooder” to perform a citizen’s arrest.
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Despite what “brainiacs” from the Ivy League may say, Curtis Sliwa insists that citizens arrests have been “embedded in the fabric of the law since the Magna Carta.”
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If you’re attacked, the best thing to do is “make the hunter become the hunted,” says Sliwa.
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Curtis Sliwa recounts in vivid detail how in 1992 a seemingly normal cab ride turned into a near-death experience, leaving him shot and bleeding on a New York sidewalk.
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Most of the United States’ health care costs come from diabetes, heart disease and obesity—problems that could be fixed by changing our behavior.
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Lawyers will be much more fulfilled if they do some public service, suggests Kramer.
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Kramer believes that firms hire too far in advance. They don’t know what they’re getting, and students get locked into their legal specialties prematurely.
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As dean of Stanford Law, Kramer is trying to reconceptualize the three-year law program, emphasizing more practical skills lawyers will need.
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The Stanford Law dean says the legal education system needs to do more to prepare students to actually practice. There are a wide set of intellectual skills that are essential […]
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The expansion of the legal market around the world has benefited massive corporate law firms at the expense of small community firms, says Kramer.
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A conversation with the dean of Stanford Law School.
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How an expensive trip to the emergency room convinced a tech entrepreneur that there is something seriously wrong with medical care in America.
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Medpedia seeks to balance the distributed nature of knowledge with the oversight of medical professionals.
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The “major thesis of our lives” is that zero marginal cost technologies like the Internet are allowing systems of control to be distributed, rather than centralized.
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A brief description of virtual currency and why it may revolutionize the way we pay for things on the Web.
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A conversation with the chairman of Medpedia.
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The best way to balance open source developing and growing your own business is to combine the two, Hansson suggests.
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Hansson loves Apple’s products, but he calls their decision to restrict programming languages for iPhone apps a “fascist move.”
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Cloud computing shouldn’t be an either/or decision. We should definitely make use of the tremendous collaborative possibilities of the Web for some tasks but utilize “the awesome local, graphical power […]