Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commune back in western Massachusetts in the 1970s," says Susan Scott, 52, one of the community's founders. "I thought it was a great way to raise children." But in the 1980s, Scott, like so many other flower children, took a right-hand turn. She became a lawyer for the state of California, got married, bought a house, had a child, got divorced...
...injustice in this world when it is announced in the courtroom that he has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. He explodes with the rawest of emotions that makes you catch your breath, such as when he bangs his phone against the cell window telling his lawyer that he cannot stay in prison anymore. There is just nothing that this man does that does not speak straight to the heart...
...laugh. I hold a lot of stock in funny people. He'd have to be, at his core and good at showing it, a very kind and gentle person. Also because I fancy myself a kind and gentle person. I don't fancy myself marrying a banker or a lawyer or consultant. And he's gotta love my mom. It's a package deal. You can't have one without the other...
...feel that my idealism is particularly selfless. I basically want to do the Peace Corps to figure out important things about myself and my capacities. Yet, after law school, I don't want a lawyer's life--it sounds like a certain type of hell to me. I want to be able to do exactly what I want to do. There is no point in being rich if you are unhappy...
...Tripp's lawyers argue that the wiretaps are inadmissible since they became public only after she had an immunity deal with Ken Starr. But Maryland prosecutors made a strong case for admissibility Thursday on the strength of Monica's testimony. Lewinsky said a conversation, reprinted in Newsweek, took place December 22, 1997 - before Tripp reached an immunity deal with Starr, and afterTripp's lawyer had told her that such taping was illegal. Any recording after the deal was reached will probably be deemed inadmissible. But Lewinsky maintains she remembers specifically that it occurred before then because "it was a pretty...