Word: bennett
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...librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff, but he habitually cloaked himself in a grave manner (when he turned 60, Alan Bennett asked, "but when was he anything else...
...surprise that Bennett has appeared at the side of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has been implicated in the congressional post office stamps-for-cash scandal. "The chairman decided he'd better get a fighter," explains a Rostenkowski friend. "Bennett is a tough trial lawyer who's not going to make a deal." Rostenkowski -- a major force in reshaping President Clinton's budget -- could be indicted on charges far exceeding the 29-penny- ante stamp scam, including misuse of campaign funds. After days of stonewalling, the chairman called a press conference...
...action was classic Bennett. The lawyer likes to combine shrewd use of the media with concern for his client's state of mind. Says Weinberger, who was indicted (and pardoned) for his role in the Iran-contra affair: "Bob is crucial because of the terrorist approach of prosecutors. They hope the person they target will fold up, blow away and plead guilty...
...Bennett, the elder brother of former drug czar (and Republican presidential hopeful) Bill, has spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...
Apart from instructing juries on the prosecutor's evil ways, Bennett has two passions: fly-fishing in Montana, where he has a house on the Yellowstone River, and poker, which he plays with such friends as Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia and former Nixon adviser Leonard Garment. While others talk about politics, Bennett concentrates on the cards. He does not like to lose. Yet he is well aware of what he's best at. A fishing buddy remembers a Bennett attempt at gratitude. "You helped me so much," said Bennett, "I wish there was something...