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A Beginner’s Guide To Board Games That Don’t Suck

December 29, 2014 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

So there you are, in the Target game aisle, and you see one of those games you’ve heard about from friends: Settlers of Catan. It comes in a sturdy-looking box that’s taller and has a smaller footprint than your Monopoly board, and when you pick it up for a closer look you realize it’s a…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: board games, dixit, forbidden island, monopoly

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Gamer Girl

December 23, 2014 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

My older daughter Molly’s love affair with Monopoly started when she was seven. I blame the fact that we had two strategy books about Monopoly in the house. The fun part of Monopoly is the wheeling and dealing, trying to construct a trade that will be sufficiently beneficial to the other person that they’ll actually…

Filed Under: Endings Tagged With: games, imaginary friends, monopoly

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"Bar-ly" Defensible

March 13, 2013 by The Northwest 3L Leave a Comment

It always amazes me that the field of Antitrust has any practicing lawyers in it at all.  Not because it’s a particularly complicated field, nor because it’s particularly unexciting since, in practice, the field is substantially less complicated than Administrative Law, and, as Microsoft in the ’90s and Apple more recently have shown, there’s plenty…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: antirust law, bar, bar exam, exam, monopoly, state bar

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"Get Out of Jail for Swede" Card

October 3, 2012 by Jeana Brookes 1 Comment

Swedes, Asians . . . humans, they all look alike.

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: get out of jail free, guest post, monopoly

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