This Briefly has been updated to reflect new case law, the recently announced changes in the Department of Justice's Charging Guidelines in Corporate Fraud Prosecutions, and the implications of newly revised Rule of Civil Procedure 37(f) on e-discovery.

We should be cautiously optimistic about future developments as important cases about federal preemption and the scope of securities laws come before the SupremeCourt in 2007.

Pursuant to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the great majority of U.S. cable subscribers will face unregulated pricing for the first time in seven years.

Joshua Muravchik's thoughts on Patrick J. Buchanan and his two definitions of anti-Semitism

Review of Reflections of a Cold Warrior, by Richard Bissell.

The Turks need two things: partnership with Europe and freedom from the constraints that their own government imposes through high taxes, state-owned businesses and unsound money.

Russia, its bodily defenses low, has caught the Asian flu. The fever is cooling briefly, but the patient will be sick for a long time.