legal issues

Dec. 9, 2008—A Yale man with a law degree from Harvard, he was a litigation powerhouse, a leader at some of the more prominent firms at the New York bar who then started a top-shelf practice of his own. But when the lawyer, Marc S. Dreier, stepped off a flight from Canada on Sunday night, federal authorities arrested him in a $100 million fraud scheme, portraying his recent undertakings as more high-stakes grifting than high-end lawyering. NYT A28—even Harvard can’t fix that Yale training…

--Here’s another sign of the tough economic times: Some clinics are reporting a surge in the number of women applying to donate eggs or serve as surrogate mothers for infertile couples. .. One ad running in campus newspapers promises $25,000 for a donor who is “100% Jewish with … High SAT scores … Attractive, at Healthy Body Weight and Free of Genetic Diseases.” WSJ D1 --so is it still Jewish if it comes from a Jewish egg, but a gentile vagina? or how about a gentile egg and a Jewish vagina?