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Mid-week Links

By Kim Krawiec

The Odds On Athletes Spending Time Behind Bars This Season (via Above The Law).

In The New Yorker, economist Andrew Zimbalist on the sports recession.

Mary Dudziak at Legal History Blog with book reviews (here and here) of interest to legal historians.

Via the Financial Times, there?s a big fight a-brewin? . . . and it?s over Times New Roman:

typography may present a genteel exterior, but it?s an art form punctuated by bitter rivalries and rampant plagiarism. . . .

The Times newspaper itself has begun accepting the possibility of an alternative history to its famous font. In 2007, the newspaper stated that Times New Roman was designed by Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent ?and possibly Starling Burgess?. 

(HT: Tyler Cowen)

Above The Law on Working Mother Magazine?s list of 50 Best Law Firms For Women (more coverage here, at ABA Journal).

Becker and Posner on the financial crisis.  Becker: The World Recession is Ending: What Next? And Posner: It's Not a Recession, and It's Not Over.

And on the media industry, Law Librarian Blog with the CRS Report, Tyler Cowen with Can Murdoch charge for the web?, and Felix Salmon with How the link economy benefits Reuters.  

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).