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Many are doing very well, in their bank accounts if not in the esteem of all of their colleagues. One Illinois defense attorney wears a heavy gold bracelet emblazoned in diamonds with "ll-501(a)," the legislative designation of the state's drunken-driving law. Unlike many defendants in other kinds of criminal cases, a large number of drunken drivers are middle class and thus able to pay for a competent defense. Even a simple case now costs a client $500 to $1,500 in most parts of the country. As cases get more complicated, fees inevitably rise. Francis...
Every four years since then, the world has come together to be pulled further apart in the only event that seems to matter: the international tug o' war. Munich in 1972 was a reprise of the Holocaust. Two dozen African nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down...
...manager of this hotel was an Italian named Tosco. He wore a silver bracelet and pinched our faces too hard . . . Tosco liked Honduras. It was nice and cheap. You could do anything you wanted here, he said...
Though he cared nothing for opera, Onassis immediately basked in Maria's artistic fame. She said goodbye to Meneghini and sailed away on Onassis' yacht Christina to a life of luxury and narcissism. She got her TMWL (To Maria With Love) bracelet-just as Onassis' first wife Tina had received a TTWL and his second, Jacqueline Kennedy, would get a TJWL...
...easy man to judge; he sends out too many unexpected signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general