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Schroder's office is a sort of anteroom to her boss's; it opens onto a hallway in the modern building where she works, and her boss's office is through a door next to her desk. The room where Schroder works is neat and streamlined, with a picture window and various office accoutrements--a typewriter, filing cabinets, books, a phone. Schroder is making instant coffee from a plug-in pot, without a great deal of assurance. "See," she says, laughing, "I'm not one of those secretaries who makes coffee any more...
...mass of defendants without a commensurate increase in staff. Elsewhere, court-assigned counsel are used-"usually novices gaining experience, or court 'regulars.' " Whoever the lawyer is, he usually meets his client for the first time only minutes before the trial. The study calls this "hallway advocacy" and criticizes "most of the legal profession" and the law schools for shunning the lower criminal courts and letting them remain "invisible and disreputable." To make new lawyers aware of the problem, the center recommends that law students be hired to assist lawyers who work in such courts. It also endorses widespread...
Davies calmly moved the 38 nonsecurity members of his staff away from the large blue-shuttered windows to the hallway of the second floor, mainly out of fear that one of the cars might explode and bombard them with debris. Eleven of the embassy's 14 Marines tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas, and everyone inside was issued a gas mask. The tear gas had little effect. Armed National Guard troops finally arrived to back up the police, and they began firing into the air to quiet the crowd, but to no avail...
...case of attack called for Davies to hide himself in his bathroom, the safest niche in the embassy, he remained with his staff. Gunfire raked both sides of the building. One high-velocity bullet ripped through the shutters of his office, went through three open-doors, down a long hallway and struck him in the chest. He dropped to the floor with a groan, his gas mask half off his face, blood gushing from his wound. A Maronite Cypriot receptionist, Antoinette Varnava, rushed to his side. A second bullet blew off her head...
Fire gutted a first-floor suite and caused minor damage to a hallway in Lowell House early Sunday morning, injuring one student and bringing calls for improved alarm systems and evacuation procedures...