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...knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims" - even to refute such a notion - is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have been more accurate and thoughtful to have said that some Jews found a way to fight back, and did. Richard Allen Cohen, CHICAGO...
...anyone had any remaining doubts whether embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was going to fight hard to hold onto his job - and freedom - in the face of stinging corruption allegations, they were surely dispelled after veteran Chicago defense lawyer Edward Genson came to his side...
...fair share of them, it's often his opponents who end up playing the fool. "I teach cross-examination at my law firm, and a lot of what I teach I learned by watching Ed Genson carve up my witnesses," said Scott Lassar, a former U.S. Attorney in Chicago and current partner with the firm of Sidley Austin, who went mano a mano with Genson as a young prosecutor...
...tape with a teenage girl. Genson won the case, getting Kelly acquitted of all 14 counts. And in a 2003 verdict that stunned some court observers, Genson teamed with three other top-tier lawyers to win the acquittal of Bruno Mancari, the brother of a well-known Chicago-area auto dealer, on charges he murdered a childhood pal 18 years earlier...
...known him for over 30 years, and he's seen it all," said former governor James Thompson, whose powerhouse firm, Winston & Strawn, once represented the governor's campaign fund. "He's tough, and he knows Chicago...