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...best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from one suit and the jacket from another. (See Eulogy...
...starting line is in Hopkinton, Mass., and the runners finish in Back Bay, Boston, after traversing 26.2 miles, the same distance as the first marathon in Greece: from Athens to Attica...
...first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four years' worth of contempt citations (none of it served). His use of courtrooms as high- profile political platforms often worked to client's and cause's good...
...example, all marathons are 26 miles and 385 yards. The original length of a marathon was 26 miles even--the distance from Athens to Attica--but the extra yards were added early this century to provide King George VI with a clear view of the finish line of the London marathon, according to Cole...
...cleric in their two conversations since his arrest. Ibrahim Elgabrowny, the second man who was picked up last week after he tried to block an FBI search of his home, is a cousin of El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian American who is currently serving up to 22 years in Attica state prison on a weapons charge related to the 1990 Kahane slaying. Like Salameh, Nosair worshipped at Al-Salam Mosque. The address where Elgabrowny was arrested is also listed on Salameh's 1992 driver's license and has been used by Nosair. The New York Times reported on Saturday that...