Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that last week the Supreme Court made her even more crucial to his case. The Justices rejected his request for a highly unusual fast-track ruling on his fights with the Administration over whether Secret Service employees and White House attorneys can be forced to testify. Though U.S. District Court Judge Norma Hollaway Johnson has ruled that they can be, the Administration is appealing her decision. A three-judge appeals panel that includes two Clinton appointees has said it will hear oral arguments in the matter starting June 26. Starr, who is seeking testimony from White House adviser Bruce Lindsey...
Cacheris can play hardball, but he wraps his barbs in gentlemanly tones. "He can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip," says John Moscow of the Manhattan district attorney's office. Like all good lawyers, Cacheris knows that in many cases, a deal beats a court fight hands down. Beneficiaries of his bargaining skills include Fawn Hall, the former secretary to Oliver North who won immunity in exchange for testimony, and Ames, who faced a possible death sentence until Cacheris secured a life-in-prison plea bargain. But Cacheris...
...Chaplin's first night in New York in September 1910, he walked around the theater district, dazzled by its lights and movement. "This is it!" he told himself. "This is where I belong!" Yet he never became a U.S. citizen. An internationalist by temperament and fame, he considered patriotism "the greatest insanity that the world has ever suffered." As the Depression gave way to World War II and the cold war, the increasingly politicized message of his films, his expressed sympathies with pacifists, communists and Soviet supporters, became suspect. It didn't help that Chaplin, a bafflingly complex and private...
...band called the Quarrymen. By the following year, the group had been joined by McCartney and his school friend George Harrison, then just 14. In 1960, calling themselves the Silver Beatles, and with drummer Pete Best in tow, they sailed to Germany to play the riotous red-light-district bars of Hamburg, drink Herculean quantities of beer and gulp down handfuls of illicitly energizing pills to keep them stage ready seven nights a week...
...Suffolk County District Attorney's officeinitially said that Okrent's death was beinginvestigated as a "possible homicide," butcautioned that such a wound could be the result ofsuicide...