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...Criminal law is the most investigative kind of law—and I am the kind of guy who could argue to save a guy’s life, but never to send someone to jail—that runs against my grain. I would like to argue a case to a jury—there is something very similar about the two careers...you’re just trying to get someone to tell a story,” he says...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Master of the Mic Plans “Different” Speech | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...Herman Melville's imposing novel made it onstage. (Adaptations of epic novels, like John Irving's Cider House Rules, have a habit of flopping in New York.) Houston's enterprising Alley Theater last fall staged a fine production of The General from America, Richard Nelson's brooding, against-the-grain, surprisingly convincing historical drama about Benedict Arnold. (The play later opened off-Broadway, where the critics, predictably, dissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Than Broadway! | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...TRAVEL Japan: Going with the Grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Decay | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...TRAVEL Japan: Going with the Grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, Andy Warhol | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...TRAVEL Japan: Going with the Grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Peace Zone? | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

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