Word: clerked
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Although she's hardly your average freshman, Jessica Lynch in a few weeks will be trying hard to blend in at West Virginia University. At 22, the former Army supply clerk, who became an icon after her dramatic rescue from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, hopes one day to be a kindergarten teacher. She spoke with TIME's Wendy Cole about coping with the attention and prefreshman jitters...
...argued 39 cases before the high court and won 25 of them. Colleagues recall his racing around the law firm with a white legal pad, jotting down questions he might be asked and then answering them. "He had it all the time," says a former colleague and fellow Rehnquist clerk, Gregory Garre. "I don't think he brought it to the supermarket, but he would have it with him in the office, and he'd bring it home at night." Roberts would amass 300 questions and answers for a major case, then stage moot-court sessions to rehearse them. Richard...
Then the lights went out. On Thursday morning, Chris Lowry, 17, a lawyer's clerk, was sitting on a Piccadilly Line train outside King's Cross when "a fat blast came from the front end. I actually think I fell out of my seat at first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train...
...unlike the majority of Harvard-educated Supreme Court justices, Gonzales was not on the Law Review and did not clerk for a federal judge after graduation...
This is reflected in the store’s clerk-client relationship, in which a surly, Boston-tinged hipster indifference might mask latent friendliness...