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...many the action looked unseemly. Said Phoenix Lawyer Mark Harrison: "This vote will enhance the mouthpiece image for which many lawyers are known." Next day, as if to make amends, the delegates, by a 2-to-1 margin, embraced a newly explicit requirement: a lawyer must reveal perjury committed by his client in court. "The two votes were as inconsistent as they could possibly be," said Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, an ethics expert who believes in strict confidentiality. "I think the second vote was, more than anything else, an image vote...
Rosovsky: I think it's fair in one sense. Tenure, explicit the way that academic tenure is, can only be found in higher education. It does not exist to my knowledge in business. We are peculiar in that way, and you could perhaps argue that the price of lifetime tenure is mandatory retirement. I would consider that to be a reasonable trade-off. But I'm not convinced that this law makes sense for the rest of society...
Crimson: Does Harvard have an explicit flexible retirement system...
Even in narrating the tragedies that the changing ideals brought his family, Liang avoids explicit criticism. His continuing loyalty prohibits him from ever directly confronting the implications of what happened to his family, By bad luck or ideological foolishness, the Liang family became drawn into each new movement, and the result conflict between political and familial loyalties tore the family apart...
...kind of fine, mad logic, and Scorsese's edgy style, nervous and bright, fits the subject perfectly. By the time Rupert kidnaps Jerry, demanding air time for his monologue, and making everyone believe that death is his downside, the movie is irresistible, though a crude coda, which makes explicit the social criticism long since implied, is eminently resistible. But if it blunts it cannot spoil a film that will itch on the memory...