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Boies is used to cramming. He has struggled with dyslexia since childhood, and memorizes every detail to avoid having to read anything twice. A few days before Thanksgiving 1986, he was recruited to perform one of his most dramatic saves: appealing a jury verdict that assessed Texaco $10.6 billion for busting up the acquisition of Getty by Pennzoil. At the time, he had been tending to his dying mother in Fullerton, Calif. By Dec. 3, he had mastered 30,000 pages of the original trial transcript, and for the duration of the appeal he split his time between federal court...
...After all, along with all the downs yesterday, there were certainly many ups. At various points, I'm sure we all enjoyed laughing at the other side of the stadium. Although some of us, for different reasons, may find it difficult to remember yesterday's contest in specific detail, we will all acknowledge that it was more than just a football game...
...After all, along with all the downs yesterday, there were certainly many ups. At various points, I'm sure we all enjoyed laughing at the other side of the stadium. Although some of us, for different reasons, may find it difficult to remember yesterday's contest in specific detail, we will all acknowledge that it was more than just a football game...
...tales of all-night writing and aides' squabbling over credit, Waldman spoke of President Clinton's "incredible range of oratorical knowledge" and "love for the podium." "We'd hand him a bare outline of points to make and policies to explain, and he'd 'pretty it up,' with detail and argument tailored to the mood of the audience. We'd give him Hemingway, and he'd turn it into Faulkner...
...attack ever in Washington, D.C., may have been ordered by one of Washington's closest allies. And that's just one of the more startling revelations in the latest collection of documents released by the CIA. The agency on Monday declassified the third in a series of documents that detail the U.S.'s role in the overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president in 1973 and Washington's subsequent support for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The papers demonstrate that the American government acted in full knowledge of the dictatorship's systematic and bloody abuse of human rights...