Word: hatful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Does the attorney-client privilege extend beyond the grave? Is your lawyer allowed to keep your conversations secret after you die? Believe it or not, the Supreme Court is only just getting around to tackling this basic, if morbid, legal issue. Prosecutor Ken Starr, wearing his Whitewater hat, asked the Justices Monday to require attorney James Hamilton to turn over notes relating to one ex-client in particular -- the late Vince Foster. Hamilton begged the court not to cut off the sacred attorney-client privilege at the moment of death: "People do care," he said, "about their reputations...
...NAME] B.J. HABIBIE [JOB] President of Indonesia [WHY IN THE NEWS] Outlasted Suharto [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] His little hat [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] Accompanied by soldiers...
...career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer--she was apparently charming but no Piaf--led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave way to a bigger and better deal when she moved on to his friend, Arthur ("Boy") Capel, who is said to have been the love of her life and who backed her expansion from hats to clothes and from Paris to the coastal resorts of Deauville...
Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s, stood the life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp--outfitted in tattered, baggy pants, a cutaway coat and vest, impossibly large, worn-out shoes and a battered derby hat--bearing the inscription I AM HERE TODAY. An advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that precious, almost shocking moment when art delivers what life cannot, when experience and delight become synonymous, and our investments yield the fabulous, unmerited bonanza we never get past expecting...
...hat I really want to do with my music [is]to be able to touch people, to be able to impactthem, to maybe soothe their souls the way mine wassoothed when I wrote [my first real] song," hesays...