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LEGAL PEOPLE

March 10, 2014

Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn LLP is pleased to announce that Brian D. Wassom, a partner in its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group and leader of the firm's Social, Mobile and Emerging Media Industry Group, has been named one of Oakland ...

TAKING STOCK: Trinity Industries

March 10, 2014

Dear Mr. Berko: I have $120,000 to invest. Our new broker has recommended nine different stocks (list enclosed), and the only stock I never heard of is Trinity Industries Inc. What do you know about it, and what is your opinion? This broker says he knows ...

TAKING STOCK: Newspaper stocks

March 10, 2014

Dear Mr. Berko: I bought 800 shares of Gannett Co. for my individual retirement account in March 2009 at $2.30 a share and have a mind-blowing profit of $20,000. I bought it because my dad, who held various midlevel positions at Gannett for 31 years, ...

NO BETTER VIEW: If I served my country, aren't I entitled to something?

March 10, 2014

By Margaret Costello There are approximately 22 million military veterans living in the U.S. today. Fewer than 20 percent receive VA service-connected disability compensation (approximately 3.5 million) or pension benefits (fewer than 500,000). ...

COMMENTARY: Down with Presidents' Day, up with Washington's Birthday & Patriot Week

March 10, 2014

By Michael Warren We recently went through the buffoonery of celebrating Presidents' Day through grand sales at retail outlets and a delay in the post. Meanwhile, Washington's birthday went by without a whisper. Why exactly the culture has decided ...

MAY IT PLEASE THE PALATE: The Olive and the Caper

March 10, 2014

By Nick Roumel Today's recipe is from a Greek cookbook called "The Olive and the Caper." It is named to honor two venerable cured delicacies in Greek cuisine. Names that were rejected included "The Squid and the Liver Square" and "Moose-caca and ...