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Speaking of, there are rules to being in bars in New York. For those who are 21, these are specific and non-negotiable. Know what you want to drink when the bartender asks you. (As a corollary: do not order mixed drinks in a bar with a jukebox.) Do not be a jerk about being asked to show ID. Say please and thank you. And tip well on every round of drinks you purchase. Seriously. Every round.

I spent the first six months of 2011

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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

I'm as sympathetic to the plight of teachers

It was Mahler’s freshly imagined interpretive style of orchestral performance, its special qualities of instrumental blend, dynamic nuance and rhythmic plasticity that both inspired the musicians of the Philharmonic and mesmerized New York audiences all those years ago. What did a typical Mahler concert sound like? We will never know. But the sheer expressive boldness of those vast, risk-taking late-Romantic symphonies tell us that Mahler the composer and Mahler the conductor surely inhabited the same musical world.

Q. I would love any of your suggestions for where to take my girlfriend to dinner, either in Manhattan (where we both work) or Brooklyn (where we both live). I love to eat out, but she is a vegetarian (no meat, no fish; dairy and eggs, fine) who prefers to eat light. The easy choice, Italian, doesn’t really meet our needs. Usually, we end up at the pan-Asian places, but there is only so much stir-fried tofu, soy protein, etc., that one man can eat. We have had mixed results at vegetarian places (like Candle Cafe and Wild Ginger; disappointed at Candle 79; hated that raw-food place in Union Square). Do you have any other ideas? A. Between us? That’s a nightmare you’re living. You should abandon all this pan-Asian nonsense immediately and start going to only good restaurants.

I understand and I have the knowledge and the background and the experience to make the right judgments [to capture Bin Laden]. Senator Obama does not…Obama doesn't know how -- how the world works nor how the military works.

I think the reason we have high unemployment

The truth about grad school?