But please don't forget that it was the Devil who was in the details (attributed to architect Mies van der Rohe) until the Reagan administration. At that point major financiers got caught for ignoring certain details, like elementary parts of the securities law, and some of them actually went to prison! Or what were also called Federal country clubs. An outrage, that led to the current phrase.

Marvelous! I have been a fan of Vespucci for some years since I learned something of his life beyond the grade-school slander about how the naming of America was a nasty mistake.

I wish my grandfather, Catalan by birth, had known of Amerigo's origins.

BTW there is a small plaque commemorating Vespucci on the beach as Arraial do Cabo, a res…

Although Prof. Snyder's exposition makes the matter abundantly clear, we can cast further light by looking into the Classics.

In this case Koko, Pitti-Sing and Poohbah are anxious to avoid a pot of boiling oil:

The Mikado. ... Unfortunately, the fool of an Act says "compassing the death of the Heir Apparent." There's not a word about a mis…