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...Genson, 67, has never shied away from taking seemingly unwinnable cases, and even though he loses a fair share of them, it's often his opponents who end up playing the fool. "I teach cross-examination at my law firm, and a lot of what I teach I learned by watching Ed Genson carve up my witnesses," said Scott Lassar, a former U.S. Attorney in Chicago and current partner with the firm of Sidley Austin, who went mano a mano with Genson as a young prosecutor...
...realize that my own daughters have been known to promote family traditions as a way to have their way, stay up later, eat more cake. But like our sense of justice--think of the urgency with which toddlers insist, "That's not fair!"--the sense of tradition seems innate, as if we are born knowing that sacraments tie us together and make us whole. They are a part of a moral diet that we need to attend to, especially now when so many forces conspire to pull us farther apart. How many things this precious cost this little...
...student—ever. Her four classes, all in Ukrainian, were approved by the College for elective credit. Upon arriving at the university she says she found the atmosphere to be generally more laid back, a feeling she would miss upon her return home. Even though Piesker encountered a fair number of surprises while living in Ukraine—including cholera, daily power outages, and having running water only eight hours a day—she says her only complaint was minor. “The quality of teaching was not the same,” she says. Though...
...When we don’t have a full slate of courses, we don’t think it’s fair to say, ‘Here’s a course for Gen Ed, and sorry, only 20 people can take it,” Kenen said...
...There were times when he would make my children kiss his hand like he was the Godfather. He started to think he was Don Corleone." - Katherine Pellicano, on her husband's Mafia obsession (Vanity Fair, June...