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...Weakening loyalty between employer and employee, the growing clout of Tokyo at the expense of outlying areas-these are trends most Japanese are experiencing. But just as the salaryman is far from an endangered species, the gangs aren't likely to disappear. Yukio Yamanouchi, an Osaka-based lawyer who represents Yamaguchi-gumi, says the yakuza "provide the services that Japanese society requires." As long as there's a market, the yakuza will exist. It's just good business...
...term deterrent to terrorism or as a means of containing a population, for example-walls can achieve their objectives. The slab surrounding the West Bank has dramatically reduced the number of suicide bombings inside Israel. The Berlin Wall successfully divided a city for decades. But Danny Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer and legal counsel to Ir Amim, an organization advocating for a Jerusalem that is shared by Israelis and Palestinians, says walls are more than just concrete and barbed wire. They are corrosive symbols of social and economic rifts and iniquities, divisions that eventually must be healed, not merely bottled...
...That generation is virtually ignored,” Reddi said. “And what they did for the country in terms of the desert land they made fertile is tremendous.” Neither Reddi nor Anand is a writer by trade. The former was an environmental lawyer until she recently gave up working to write full-time, and the latter is the owner of Seeta Resources, a consulting firm in Houston. “For most of my life I rarely told people that I wrote,” Anand said...
...owner of About Hair, a salon and antique store near Harvard Square—as he prepares to stand trial for allegations of rape. Purdy’s trial was scheduled to commence yesterday in Middlesex County Superior Court, but was instead delayed until May 17, said his lawyer J. Daniel Silverman. Currently, the Cambridge business owner remains accused of indecent assault and battery of a person over 14 years old, and allegedly raping a female customer, then 19, in 2004. “There is a lot of court congestion,” Silverman said. “Often...
...least one prominent gun rights advocate admits that the 1968 gun-buying mental health standard might give people like Cho too much benefit of the doubt. Stephen P. Halbrook, a constitutional lawyer who recently was involved in the appeals court victory for gun rights advocates challenging the Washington, D.C., handgun prohibition law, thinks the time may have come for a reconsideration of those 1968 guidelines. "I'm not going to advocate new restrictions, with the exception that it should be at least a consideration that people with disabilities who have been adjudicated to be mentally ill and a danger...