Still, Ms. Kagan has shown an ability to elude attacks over her old memorandums.
The Justice Department did not respond to a question about whether the 31-year-old memorandum remains in effect.
Monica Drinane, the supervising judge of Bronx Family Court, said she had in response sent judges a new copy of a two-year-old memorandum reminding them that the court was to be open.
At other times he demonstrates the acumen for which he was once famous, quibbling with the nuances of certain words -- even the nuances of punctuation -- that appear in old bank memoranda portraying him as an unrepentant debtor who was not above mentioning his station in national politics.
Hundreds of pages of documents — contracts, film option agreements, memorandums, old scripts, yellowing correspondence with agents and producers, some dating back to the 1970s — line the closet shelves of her Manhattan apartment.
Though Metternich was tiring in his old age, the memoranda kept pouring forth from his chancellery.
The poster reads "STOP to old and new bailout memoranda -- Workers' Solidarity".
Ironically, after achieving his political success on the basis of his rejection of the old parties argument that the Memorandum is a TINA issue (There Is No Alternative), Tsipras himself has become the TINA of Greek politics.
For "West Wing Week," he found inspiration in the " '60s New Wave French movie titles," the retro government aesthetic (think green memoranda books), the old newsreels from the early 20th century, "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" ("for that sense of the vaudeville") and "Arrested Development" ("for economy of narration").
He noted that the main parts of government -- policy, finance and operations -- now work out immediate decisions in the same room, as opposed to weeks of memorandum exchanges under the old system.
