Yakima Herald-Republic articles from February 1999

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from February 1999

A new governance structure for corporate bonds.
February 1, 1999... This article proposes a new governance structure for publicly issued corporate bonds. Ownership of public bonds is both fluid and dispersed. Fluidity and dispersion generate benefits: They increase the liquidity of public bonds and make their...

Anachronism of the moral sentiments? Integrity, postmodernism, and justice.
February 1, 1999... After all, what is self-restraint but hypocrisy? If you despise Jews the most honest thing is to burn them up. And the fact that it costs money, and uses up trains and personnel--this only guarantees the integrity, the purity, the existence of...

Breard, our dualist Constitution, and the internationalist conception.(Breard v. Greene)
February 1, 1999... In its decision last Term in Breard v. Greene, the Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of Angel Breard, an inmate in Virginia, even though Virginia had violated a treaty on consular relations and the International Court of Justice had...

Waiving prosecutorial disclosure in the guilty plea process: a debate on the merits of "discovery" waivers.
February 1, 1999... Some U.S. Attorneys' have added to their plea bargain contracts a waiver of the defendant's right to additional discovery, which may include evidence impeaching the credibility of witnesses. Consequently, many prosecutors in these districts...

Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History.(Review)
February 1, 1999... CIVIC IDEALS: CONFLICTING VISIONS OF CITIZENSHIP IN U.S. HISTORY. By Rogers M. Smith.([dagger]) New Haven: Yale University Press. 1997. 719 pp. $35.00. In this review, Professor Peter or. Spiro examines Roger M. Smith's recent...