Word: foundered
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...client's legal jeopardy--and that client is himself a lawyer who likes to overrule his advisers. Clinton's choice of Kendall was a sign that he would never be taken prisoner. Kendall's firm, Williams & Connolly, prides itself on practicing "Green Beret law." The firm's founder Edward Bennett Williams used to say that in life, "every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss." Williams called it "contest living...
...going to propose that a commercial American TV network make a many-part series on the cold war, it helps to be the boss. In 1994, while CNN's founder, Ted Turner (vice chairman of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN and TIME), was in Russia attending the Goodwill Games, another of his enterprises, he had a revelation. "It just hit me," he says, "that the cold war really was over and the world needed a documentary record of this conflict." A great admirer of The World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought...
While Dershowitz declined to comment for this story, Steven Brill, founder of Brill's Content magazine, had this...
...only are women playing more, they are also taking it seriously, to judge by the growing numbers attending golf school. "When we first started, we were getting mostly country-club wives," says Marlene Floyd, sister of tour veteran Ray Floyd and founder of a women-only golf school in Hilton Head, S.C. "But in the past three or four years, the number of career women who are coming for professional reasons has grown to about 60% of our business. We're seeing a lot of stockbrokers, bankers, saleswomen, accountants and lawyers, who are taking their vacation with us to learn...
Models and food: Who thought that would work? CLAUDIA SCHIFFER has become the second superthin catwalker--Christy Turlington broke away last year--to pull out of Fashion Cafe. In a statement, Schiffer said her continued involvement was made "simply impossible" by "old problems" at the chain. Fashion Cafe founder Tommaso Buti has had problems paying bills, but a Cafe flack insists this wasn't why Schiffer left. It's another ripped seam for the eatery, which has recently seen closings of its Barcelona and New Orleans outlets. And, of course, there's a lawsuit. Investor Luigi Palma is suing Buti...