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...what to make of the big difference in the experiences of those transgenders who have become women versus those who have become men? Schilt, one of the authors of the new article, interviewed a female-to-male transgender attorney a few years ago. As a younger attorney, the lawyer had been Susan; now he was Thomas. He told Schilt that after he transitioned from female to male, another lawyer mistakenly believed that Susan had been fired and replaced by Thomas. The other lawyer commended the firm's boss for the replacement. He said Susan had been incompetent...
...Jeyaretnam, often called J.B.J., gave up life as a high-flying lawyer to become Singapore's most tenacious government critic and, in 1981, the first opposition leader elected to Parliament. The bewhiskered Jeyaretnam served in Parliament from 1981 to '86 and from 1997 to 2001. A fierce advocate for Singapore's disadvantaged, he faced sporadic bankruptcy as a result of defamation suits filed by several Singaporean politicians. Earlier this year, in a return to politics, he helped found the Reform Party and planned to run in the 2011 elections...
...that dependency is that it's sometimes hard to distinguish the state government in Juneau from the energy companies that it regulates. The state's elected officials have always worked closely with oil companies--at times, too closely. In the late 1950s, bureaucrats actually hired an oil-industry lawyer--with the big oil companies paying his expenses--to write the new state's oil and gas lease laws. Palin's populist approach was the perfect complement to rising public discontent with Big Oil, and it was the main engine of her remarkable rise from small-town mayor to a place...
...University of Cairo (bachelor's in law) and New York University (doctorate in international law) grad has been a lawyer, teacher and diplomat, serving at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as a fellow at the U.N.'s Institute for Training and Research and a professor at New York University School of Law, among other prestigious posts...
...wife Aida is an early-childhood teacher. They have two adult children - daughter Laila, a lawyer, lives in London; son Mostafa, an IT manager, resides in Cairo...