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Kitchen Accomplice - Cheesecake recipe

August 26, 2010

   I remember walking down 7th Avenue in Manhattan and seeing for the first time the Lindy’s cheesecake bakery.     I had read about it for a long time and could not believe my eyes when it appeared on a casual walk around Times ...

Taking Stock- Are you a Mac or a PC?

August 26, 2010

Dear Mr. Berko: I was thinking of buying 200 shares of Microsoft, but my brother, who knows more about investing than I do, said to buy Apple because they make a better product. He also thinks Windows will eventually go out of business because the Apple system ...

Under Analysis- Stealing Jokes isn't funny

August 26, 2010

  By: Michelle St. Germain I just flew in from Boston, and boy are my arms tired! ©    What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?  A good start. ©   With jokes as bad as these, we do not think of them ...

Kitchen Accomplice- You'll easily please the crabbiest gourmet with these crab cakes

August 26, 2010

   How often have you wished for a fine recipe for delicious crab cakes.  I like a recipe that is full of crab and just enough filler to hold them together.     When traveling with judicial friends from all over, I have discovered ...

Taking Stock- Legitimacy of gold traders

August 26, 2010

   Dear Mr. Berko: When I was a teenager, I used to collect thin gold ankle and neck chains. I'm now 28 and have 66 individual pieces, with no interest in owning them anymore. And since gold is now worth more than $1,200 an ounce, I'd like to sell ...

Under Analysis- Happy Anniversary to the best lawsuit ever

August 26, 2010

 By Charles Kramer  In 1991, Richard Overton launched what turned out to be a short lived, but long exalted lawsuit.  Now, nineteen years later, it remains one of the best lawsuits ever filed, even if both the trial Court and Court of Appeals ...