(Untitled)- July 6, 2005 The Sushi memo is a 3 page legal memorandum on the topic of sushi allegedly written by a paralegal for a midtown Manhattan law firm on July 9, 2003. The memo is complete with exhibits and footnotes, and discusses suitable choices for takeout sushi restaurants in the area. The memo became an urban legend after an article about it was published in The New York Times.Some people believe it is a parody or a joke. However, the law firm in question, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has...http://usandolamemo.blogspot.com/2005/07/sushi-memo-is-3-page-legal-memorandum_05.html (Untitled)- July 6, 2005 The Sushi memo is a 3 page legal memorandum on the topic of sushi allegedly written by a paralegal for a midtown Manhattan law firm on July 9, 2003. The memo is complete with exhibits and footnotes, and discusses suitable choices for takeout sushi restaurants in the area. The memo became an urban legend after an article about it was published in The New York Times.Some people believe it is a parody or a joke. However, the law firm in question, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, has...http://usandolamemo.blogspot.com/2005/07/sushi-memo-is-3-page-legal-memorandum.html (Untitled)- July 6, 2005 Summers memoThe Summers memo was an excerpt of a 1991 memo signed by Lawrence Summers (though actually written by an aide, Lant Pritchett) who was, at the time, Chief Economist of the World Bank.In this excerpt, the memo advanced an economic argument for the dumping of pollution from first-world countries in the territory of third-world countries. The argument was intended to be an "ironic aside" by the memo's original author, Lant Pritchett, and was intended to support an argument in the memo..http://usandolamemo.blogspot.com/2005/07/summers-memo-summers-memo-was-excerpt.html |