Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close range. Milk had been shot three times in the body, then twice in the head, also at close range. The nine shots meant that White had reloaded his revolver after killing the mayor. At his arraignment, a controlled but subdued White asked for more time to hire a lawyer and decide how to plead to charges of first-degree murder. He was given until this week...
...Edward and Mrs. Simpson on the telly, the lady herself lies ailing and aggrieved in her Paris villa. The Duchess of Windsor, now 82, is said to feel that the show portrays her as the future King's "mistress" and a "cheap adventuress." Comes the word from her lawyer, Suzanne Blum: "She was the reluctant partner. The King did not want a mistress, and if he had he would not have abdicated. He wanted a wife and the support of one woman for the rest of his life." To prove it, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson has announced...
Harvard received some of the blame for the increase in condominium conversions. "There's no doubt that the problem has been compounded by Harvard University expansion and subsidy programs, which will both reduce the number of liveable, affordable homes," David Sullivan, a Cambridge resident and lawyer for the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, told the council...
...Devil's Playground, an adolescent boy is shaped by his need to rebel against an emotionally repressive, provincial Catholic seminary. In The Last Wave, a middle-class lawyer is afflicted by sleep-splitting precognitive visions of approaching apocalypse. In Caddie, a young mother leaves her philandering husband and struggles to keep herself and her children alive as she descends into a Dickensian lower-class world. In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, a 19th century black man is finally maddened by the mindless cruelty and patronization of the dominant group and goes on a murderous rampage...
Classes begin tonight, and students gather their course materials and head for one of the center's classrooms. They are met for the introductory session by Jack Powell, a young Boston trial-lawyer who is moonlighting as a Kaplan instructor "to get up the dough for the mortgage on my house." Small talk and jokes are bantered back and forth, and one can't help but feel that he is back in high school again. The atmosphere has that same tentativeness that always used to mark the first day of class, when you would size up the teacher, and vice...