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Renaissance man Bacchus known for doing too much too well.
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The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneNews Service)
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February 10, 2002
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Byline: Jeff Kunerth
ORLANDO, Fla. _ They were second-rate encyclopedias, not the top-shelf Encyclopedia Britannica, but the teenage door-to-door salesman knew his product better than the competition knew theirs.
He'd read every volume, cover to cover, A to Z.
That approach _ voracious reading, thorough research and exhaustive preparation _ has characterized Jim Bacchus as a journalist, lawyer, Congressman and now chief judge of the World Trade Organization's appellate court in Geneva, Switzerland.
"You can't just wing it with him. You have to spend a lot of time and energy to understand the issues as well as Jim does," said Cesar Alvarez, head of Greenberg ...