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A recent article appeared at HuffingonPost.com (1/16/19)entitled “How Bad is Trump at Making Deals? Even Worse Than you Think”. The author, Emily Peck, wrote about an upcoming issue of PON Quarterly, the Harvard journal that discusses negotiation. Ms. Peck points out that the irony of Mr. Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” is that Mr. […]
January 1, 2019
Senator Richard Shelby (R-ALA) was interviewed over the Holiday weekend concerning the need to deal with the Democrats, over budgetary matters, once the Democrats become the House majority party. This is what he said on “Face the Nation”: ““We’re gonna have to negotiate. I think that we ought to see what do the Democrats really […]
December 29, 2018
What can a mediator do when the parties seem to have reached an impasse in their discussions? Some options may include the following: *Remind the parties, if they have children, how a non-agreement may place a disproportionate burden on their children. Parties may be happy to attempt to pulverize each other, but how many parents […]
December 16, 2018
It has been said that journalism is “history in a hurry”. Events unfold and professionals report it and try to put it in a proper context. Ultimately, facts get sorted out more precisely and a true picture emerges as to the significance of an event. I have heard historian Jon Meacham suggesting that a period […]
November 27, 2018
The Reader’s Digest recently had this “quotable quote” from Divorce Lawyer Laura Wasser: “Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it provides more comfortable despair.” In a divorce negotiation, or any other scenario for that matter, does more money mean a better result for a client? My answer is “maybe”. Where a person needs support to maintain […]
November 26, 2018
This snippet on the issue of Saudi Arabian responsibility for the death of a journalist appeared at Axios.com: Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union”: “I have been briefed by the CIA. And while I cannot discuss the contents of the briefing in any way, I can say that […]
November 18, 2018
If you go to:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcMT706MwnU you will see a woman and her dog in a living room. What makes the scene so fascinating is that the woman is Martha McSally of Arizona, and she is conceding her defeat for the Arizona Senate seat, to Kyrsten Sinema. The vote was a very close one and the race […]
January 18, 2019
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