Word: kunstler
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...excellent analysis of the legal basis for the tragic American landscape printed in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly, James Howard Kunstler cites zoning codes as the source for our current civic discontent. Originally, zoning was a response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town that they would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model...
...civil trial was largely symbolic, because Goetz will hardly be able to pay even a small fraction of the settlement. The civil proceedings were begun by the late anti-establishment legal hero William Kunstler, and concluded by Ronald Kuby, the pony-tailed bearer of Kunstler's mantle. The second Goetz verdict may signal that juries have become more immune to race-baiting or less likely to see black youth as potential muggers...
...Quinn, lawyer William Kunstler had a face "ready-made for a radical's Mount Rushmore." Actor Don Brockett was remembered for his astonishing range--the amiable chef on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood also played a deranged inmate in The Silence of the Lambs. Quinn's favorite obit: soprano Ina Souez, who starred in operas in the '30s and then, after World War II, joined Spike Jones' bizarre musical-comedy troupe, cheerfully warbling under a hat adorned with live pigeons. "Now there's a full life," says Quinn...
DIED. WILLIAM KUNSTLER, 76, lawyer; of a heart attack; in New York City. His face seemed ready-made for a radical's Mount Rushmore-the broad, furrowed brow, the corona of unkempt hair, the dishabille that left him looking as if he'd been blown around by the furies he provoked with his fierce defenses of civil and criminal rights. In the summer of 1961, however, he was more conventionally groomed. That's when he got his first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list...
...William Kunstler, whom wags have called "the most hated lawyer in America," died Monday in New York of a heart attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided...