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'Nuff said Posted: 06 Nov 2010 03:00 AM PDT (Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes) Reena SenGupta [right], a London-based consultant, says she used to see foreign-owned legal research operations in India where beds, not desks, greeted the visitor; such was the keenness to dispel the impression that law was being practised. -- Unsigned Economist article on "Law and globalisation." The article discusses the very high hurdle to the admission of foreign lawyers in India following Bombay High Court decision issued last December -- as well as barriers that exist in many other countries, including Canada. (Hat tip to my California-Davis colleague Jack Ayer, doyen of Underbelly blog.)

On November 6 Posted: 06 Nov 2010 01:04 AM PDT On this day in ... ... 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan declined to comment on a report that the "United States sent military spare parts to Iran as part of a secret operation intended to gain the release of American hostages in Lebanon." Two days later Congress announced plans to investigate whether the administration "had used the White House staff to circumvent Congressional restrictions on foreign policy and covert operations." On November 13 Reagan would admit that aid had been earmarked for Iran, then at war with Iraq. But soon it was revealed that NSC official Oliver North had diverted a chunk of the funds to the anti-government rebels in Nicaragua. (credit for North's mugshot) The Iran-Contra scandal grabbed headlines for years thereafter. (Prior November 6 posts are here, here, and here.)

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