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"It's Your #!": A Legal History Of The Bacardi Cocktail, Brian L. Frye
"It's Your #!": A Legal History Of The Bacardi Cocktail, Brian L. Frye
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The Bacardi cocktail was the Cosmopolitan of the Jazz Age: a sweet and sour tipple with an attractive rosy hue and a deceptively alcoholic punch. Created in about 1913, and named after Bacardi rum, it soon became one of the most popular cocktails in America. Prohibition only increased its popularity, as wealthy Americans vacationing in Cuba enjoyed Bacardi cocktails and demanded them at speakeasies and at home. Of course, every good speakeasy offered white rum (or a passable facsimile thereof) and called it “bacardi” no matter who made it. After Repeal, the popularity of the Bacardi cocktail continued to rise …
The Ballad Of Harry James Tompkins, Brian L. Frye
The Ballad Of Harry James Tompkins, Brian L. Frye
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At about 2:30 a.m. on Friday, July 27, 1934, William Colwell of Hughestown, Pennsylvania was awakened by two young men banging on his front door. When he went downstairs, they told him that someone had been run over by a train. Colwell looked out his side window. In the moonlight, he saw someone lying on the ground near the railroad tracks. He went back upstairs and told his wife that there had been an accident. She told him “not to go out, that them fellows was crazy,” but he dressed and went out to help anyway. Colwell's house was at …
The Transparency Tax, Andrew Keane Woods
The Transparency Tax, Andrew Keane Woods
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Transparency is critical to good governance, but it also imposes significant governance costs. Beyond a certain point, excess transparency acts as a kind of tax on the legal system. Others have noted the burdens of maximalist transparency policies on both budgets and regulatory efficiency, but they have largely ignored the deeper cost that transparency imposes it constrains one’s ability to support the law while telling a self-serving story about what that support means.
In order to understand this tax, this Article develops a taxonomy of transparency types. Typically, transparency means something like openness. But openness about what – the law’s …