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...mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave his body on the side...
Real-life attorneys grew more outspoken about the demonizing of lawyers after eight people at a San Francisco law firm were shot by an angry client last month. Harvey Saferstein, president of the California Bar Association, pressed for a "cease-fire" on lawyer bashing, characterizing it as a form of "hate speech." At least one advertiser felt the heat and backed down. Miller Lite decided to yank an ad showing cowboys roping divorce lawyers at a rodeo. But the enmity runs deep in the culture: after Saferstein spoke out publicly against such bashing, he received a slew of derisive calls...
There is a therapeutic reason for all this, experts say. "People both need lawyers and resent them," explains psychologist Harvey Mindess, a professor at Antioch University in Los Angeles. "A feeling of helplessness toward someone you're dependent on is very uncomfortable. In that anxiety-arousing situation, humor is a way of getting even." While such jokes invite cynicism, says Mindess, it is unlikely that they encourage violence...
...domestic partner benefits and visiting committees, among other matters. He has offered opinions on everything from the Presidential race (he voted for Clinton) to the grade inflation controversy in the spring (he offered what was at the time the strongest administrative criticism of remarks made by Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...Harvey Keitel bulldozes this point home as Graham, Smith's old partner--a grumbling and epithet-spewing caricature of the ignorant American. In the novel, Conner explains he could no longer live as a Caucasian among Japanese because he "got tired of being a 'nigger.'" Though the film cuts this line, it would have had a strong resonance with Snipes' Smith...