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{{a|glossary|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|center|450px|A [[Lehman]] employee yesterday.]]}} | {{a|glossary|[[File:Ironmountain1.jpg|center|450px|A [[Lehman]] employee yesterday.]]}}No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Lehman'''''s''''']], the Amish online hardware store? | ||
No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Amish hardware store | |||
Actually, [[Lehman]] ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | Actually, [[Lehman]] ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | ||
For [[Lehman]] is a [[risk controller]]’s [[magic incantation]] — a [[hex]], a [[horcrux]], a way of killing lively debate stone dead in its tracks. For any new initiative, any pragmatic proposal to do things in a smarter way, can be derailed by oblique reference to the sad demise of [[Lehman Brothers]], however irrelevant it may be | For [[Lehman]] is a [[risk controller]]’s [[magic incantation]] — a [[hex]], a [[horcrux]], a way of killing lively debate stone dead in its tracks. For any new initiative, any pragmatic proposal to do things in a smarter way, can be derailed by oblique reference to the sad demise of [[Lehman Brothers]], however irrelevant it may be. | ||
Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|counsel]] will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that | For, as we all know, [[Chicken-licken|the sky fell in]] on {{t|Lehman}}’s head because it tried to standardize its business and create robust operational flows that didn’t involve [[credit]] sitting on [[cross default]] [[escalation]]s. Had they only been allowed to vacillate nervously for weeks upon end about whether to waive {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} for [[Hedge fund]] clients, [[Lehman]] might still be with us today. | ||
Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|opposing counsel]] — sometimes, even your own — will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so “scarred by the experience”<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears, okay?</ref> that any record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms, [[redundancies]] and [[No violation - Representation|unfalsifable representations]] — you know the kind of dismal [[verbiage]] — and under no circumstances can one leave anything unsaid and at the mercy of the common sense, capacity for formal logic, or ability to parse a sentence phrased in idiomatic English of those learned practitioners who occupy the [[Queen’s Bench Division]]. | |||
In other words, yes, you ''do'' have to say “this [[confidentiality agreement]] may be executed in [[counterpart]]s, each of which [[shall]] be [[deemed]] to be [[deemed]] an original”, lest the sky should fall in on your head as surely as it did on [[Lehman]]’s. | |||
[[Lehmans]], on the other hand, carries on in rude health. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Horcrux]] | |||
*[[MF Global]] | *[[MF Global]] | ||
*[[Nosferatu]] | *[[Nosferatu]] | ||