Word: kovner
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...official residence (where the family still lives), and argued against a gag order in the case, Giuliani unleashed his lawyer Raoul Felder. Starting on Mother's Day, no less, Felder called Hanover an "uncaring mother" who stayed in a dead marriage for "twisted motives." Though her lawyer Victor Kovner says the couple agreed that Hanover should continue living in Gracie Mansion until her apartment is available, Felder made her sound like the interloper "howling like a stuck pig," who would have to be pulled "from the chain of the chandeliers" to remove her. In an attempt to win sympathy...
Rachel P. Kovner's disappointment with the Progressive Student Labor Movement's "illiberal left" position on Harvard's financial involvement with casinos betrays a basic misunderstanding of what it means to live in a liberal society (Editorial, "Puritanical Progressives...
...Kovner (and much of the Left) supports political liberalism, or the right of citizens to be free from the "Puritanical" judgments of the state. Liberalism requires the government to tolerate institutions like casinos, regardless of their social costs. Kovner rightly notes that this doctrine seems to be violated by John Ashcroft's moralizing approach to American...
...high social costs of gambling outweigh the benefits of the fun of casinos, then progressive activists, Christians and all people with consciences should work together to eliminate it. If not, then maybe we should follow Kovner's suggestion to buy a Megabucks lottery ticket today...
Before representing Gore, Boies had met the Vice President only once, back in 1988 at the Manhattan apartment of First Amendment lawyer Victor Kovner. More a vague Democrat than a fierce one, he rarely mentions George W. Bush in his statements, although he tells me he would never have represented the Texas Governor. "I believe in Gore's side, which is, Let's get an accurate count," he says. "I don't know about Gore as a campaigner, but here he has been reflective, thoughtful and searching for the right thing to do. I was surprised when he announced Tuesday...