Word: hires
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Like 80% to 90% of all felony defendants in the U.S., Haney was too poor to hire her own lawyer and was represented by court-appointed attorneys. In the Supreme Court's landmark 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, the Justices cited the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule...
...that she makes $12.5 million a film, DEMI MOORE can afford to hire someone younger to play herself. In Now and Then, a low-budget female-bonding movie she's co-producing, Moore, MELANIE GRIFFITH, RITA WILSON and ROSIE O'DONNELL play second fiddle to the girls who portray them as 12-year-olds. And although GABY HOFFMANN (Sleepless in Seattle), THORA BIRCH (Clear and Present Danger), ASHLEIGH ASTON MOORE and CHRISTINA RICCI (Casper) are young, they know the biz. "I didn't try to act 12," says Ricci, 15. "When people try to act younger, they come off looking...
Carsey Yee, a graduate student and resident tutor in Adams House, says "even if there were no concept of affirmative action, hiring would still be done on a racial basis. You'd have a bunch of 35 year-old white boys hiring another 35 year-old white boy, because people hire the people they feel most comfortable with...
...least one elected official, Reeves, says he thinks the city has been remiss in its efforts to hire minorities...
...Investment banking] and consulting are theonly areas where they will hire you without anyskills, just for your diploma, and pay you enoughmoney to afford a middle class lifestyle whenyou're 22," says Gregory Shlionsky '95, who willwork at Lehman Brothers next year...