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...howls like a werewolf. It kills with the brutal indifference of Dracula. Like a rabid dog, it rages and spits. Like Diane Sawyer, it never sleeps...
...glasses halfway down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies' pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief--just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President Al Gore. Boies' celebrated Lands' End suit remains neatly buttoned; he wears his omnipresent black running shoes, one crossed over the other. He's not in a quiet conference room at one of the local...
During his nearly 30 years at the firm, he managed to inflame associates who couldn't bear his brutal capacity for work ("Would you rather sleep," he would ask, "or win?") and offend partners who resented his freelancing ways. Late in his career with Cravath, Boies was virtually a separate firm within the firm, using outside lawyers rather than Cravath's own soldiers to assist him on big cases...
Annie Wilson (Blanchett) is part psychic, part psychiatrist. The locals come to her modest Georgia home less for her readings of the future than for sympathy and counsel. Valerie the battered wife (Hilary Swank) needs to hear she has the courage to leave her brutal husband Donnie (Reeves). Poor afflicted Buddy (Giovanni Ribisi) needs to get those angry voices out of his head. And when prime rich bitch Jessica King (Katie Holmes) goes missing, her grieving fiance (Greg Kinnear) comes to Annie. For though she chats with her dead grandmother, sleeps with a baseball bat beside...
...years, Carlos Castano and his paramilitary death squads have sown terror among civilians in rural areas of Colombia [WORLD, Nov. 27]. Castano's United Self-Defense Forces, the self-appointed exterminators of leftist rebels, label civilians as guerrilla sympathizers and thus make them "legitimate" targets of brutal attacks. Your article's semiheroic depiction of Castano failed to mention that he is responsible for the murder of dozens of peasants, indigenous leaders, union workers, academics, journalists and human-rights activists. JAUME VIDAL CASANOVAS ANA MARIA GOMEZ LOPEZ Washington...