Yakima Herald-Republic articles from July 2001

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from July 2001

Privacy and power: computer databases and metaphors for information privacy.
July 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION We are in the midst of an information revolution, and we are only beginning to understand its implications. In the past decade, we have undergone a dramatic transformation in the way we shop, bank, and go about our daily...

Rents and their corporate consequences.
July 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Industrial organization and corporate governance affect one another, sometimes fitting together as complements, sometimes clashing. Monopolistic (or oligopolistic) rents from weak competition in a democratic polity fit with...

Coughlin's suspicion.(Anne Coughlin)
July 1, 2001... A.S. Byatt's mordant fictional report from a "theoretical seminar" for literature graduate students reflects the intellectual crisis that the rise of postmodernism has caused in the academy. As the various postmodern critical theories challenge...

The poetics of the pragmatic: what Literary Criticisms of Law offers Posner.(Richard Posner)
July 1, 2001... Is it practical to evaluate law aesthetically, as if it were a kind of literature? In reviewing Literary Criticisms of Law.(1) Judge Richard Posner argues that it is not instrumentally useful to view law as a kind of literature.(2) He thereby...

Formally legal, probably wrong: corporate tax shelters, practical reason and the New Textualism.
July 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION In the record-breaking boom of the 1990s, corporate earnings rose sharply. As a result, corporate tax revenues also increased. Interestingly, the increase in tax revenue did not keep pace with the rise in pre-tax income....

The Role of Recoupment in Predatory Pricing Analyses.
July 1, 2001... I. INTRODUCTION Predatory pricing is a classic problem in antitrust enforcement. As with other areas of antitrust regulation, successful enforcement requires a court to identify and deter anti-competitive conduct, without deterring good...

Man and Wife in America: A History.(Review)
July 1, 2001... MAN AND WIFE IN AMERICA: A HISTORY. By Hendrik Hartog.([dagger]) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000. 408 pp. INTRODUCTION The conventional account of nineteenth-century marriage goes something like this: Couples met, and they,...