Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WOLFE WROTE in a ceaseless quest for a meaning grandiose enough to explain his life. This quest, argues Donald, formed the basis of his genius. It caused him to produce a tremendous output, which ranged from the admirable to the ridiculous. For example, Wolfe once wrote an account that, according to Donald...
...addition to criticism of Frankfurter, the account produced dissent from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...
While she was held in jail for four days, the killers -- three men with prior arrest records -- turned up. Smith, 39, filed a suit for false arrest. Last week Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joel Rudof ruled that despite Smith's detailed account of the murder of a woman she never knew or saw, police did not have probable cause to lock her up. Smith's attorney has asked for $750,000 in damages; the jury's verdict is expected this week...
Reagan, by his own account, was equally ill informed about how the weapons sales to Iran had "degenerated" (his word) into an arms-for-hostages exchange. Not "until I read the Tower commission report," issued Feb. 26, did he find "that the strategy talks had disappeared completely and . . . the conversation was totally arms for hostages." If so, he must have been one of the last people in the country to come to that realization...
...North worked the same kind of deal on arms sold by the U.S. to Iran a year or so later. Alfonso Robelo, head of a contra group based in Costa Rica, told the Post that North had arranged for $100,000 to be paid into the group's bank account...