Word: lawyer
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Samper, a lawyer and economist, contends that if growing had been legal, Colombia last year could have saved the $120 million it spent on trying to stop it and also collected taxes of $168 million on the huge amount of pot, worth an estimated $1.4 billion wholesale, that was smuggled out of the country. Further, Samper calculates that the estimated 30,000 grower families get only 8% of the earnings of the trade; the rest goes to smugglers and middlemen, most of them North Americans. Legalization, says Samper, would both spread the pot wealth better and rid Colombia of much...
...month, Superior Court Judge John W. King came up with a peculiar ruling: after initially closing off a pretrial hearing in a murder case, the judge relented and allowed David Lord, a reporter from the Keene Evening Sentinel, to sit in. King insisted, however, that the newspaper's lawyer, Ernest L. Bell III, sit next to the reporter, telling him what he could and could not write. If anything prejudicial to the defendant appeared in the newspaper, the judge warned, Bell would be subject to discipline. When the hearing resumed, Bell rose and told the judge he had "more...
...Stanford-educated superachiever. The ancient senior partner (the wonderful British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White) is doddering ("I make my best decisions when I'm asleep") and autocratic, but often he proves to be the wisest person in the room. The firm's most unctuous, corporate-minded lawyer (Joe Regalbuto) may be a back stabber, but he is also a mean wit. When a liberal colleague talks about serving mankind, he replies, "Unfortunately, they're not our clients...
...other woman," Karen Traynor, is played masterfully by WASP phenomenon Meryl Streep. A lawyer whose civil rights organization gives Tynan information which can destroy a supposedly racist Supreme Court nominee, Traynor bears the oft-mentioned aphrodisiac of power: as Tynan makes the move on Traynor in his private office, he whispers, "I think I'm infatuated with you... You remind me of John Kennedy...
...soul-mate, another mover and shaker and eater of Maalox? Tynan's lack of concern for his non-political life is matched and complemented by Karen's similar interests. In a scene reminiscent of Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch's "business lunch" in Network, the senator and the lawyer share information about their upcoming confrontation with the Supreme Court nominee while performing stress tests on their new Posturepedic. Streep, tackling with stunning confidence an entirely different role from that she played in The Deer Hunter, evinces a magnetic attraction to power. In her first conversation with Tynan, she says, "When...