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...A.B.A. had zealously guarded the attorney-client privilege, arguing that confidentiality is necessary for lawyers to provide the best representation. Church doctrine has held that confession can lead to absolution from God--and confidentiality is needed for people to confess their worst deeds. But now each group, while defending the core of its privilege, has taken steps to let their practitioners talk a little more...
...Condit's statements to police may also provide authorities with some leverage. If it's true that it took him until his third interview to confess to an affair with Levy, does that mean he lied to them in the first two sessions? Under the D.C. code obstruction of justice charges can be brought against anyone who "corruptly" (as in by lying) "obstructs or impedes or endeavors to obstruct or impede the due administration of justice in any official proceeding" (such as an investigation of someone's disappearance). For his part, Condit has officially stated that he never asked anyone...
...deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they might be reciting a grocery list. (He also directed, but didn't write, the Renée Zellweger comedy Nurse Betty...
...here I am, back in Hong Kong at my beloved keyboard, which keeps me legible and - as a direct consequence - legitimately employed. I'm pretty certain most people will continue to type, rather than write, all their important documents. But I must confess to being seduced by Anoto's basic premise: old-fashioned pen and paper can be reinvented to fit the digital age. When the Chatpen comes onto the market, I won't be the first in line to buy one. But I doubt I will be able to resist for too long...
...limit on gifts and even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was-gasp!-in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...