Word: lawyering
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...these comments to cast Obama as an arrogant elitist, they better be prepared to deal with the blowback. As Jamal Simmons, a Democratic consultant and Obama supporter, put it in an email exchange with TIME, "Hillary Clinton calls Barack Obama elitist? Really? Hillary Clinton was a corporate lawyer who sat on the Wal-Mart board before becoming First Lady and is now worth over $100 million. Barack Obama is the child of a single mother raised in part by his grandparents who went to school on a scholarship and was a community organizer making $12,000 a year before becoming...
...Story Begins,” he extends this deceptive banality to an impressive breadth of fresh topics.The collection features an array of gems. In “A White Bible”, a father kidnaps a high school teacher. In “The Deposition,” a lawyer follows an adolescent girl who has entranced him. In “Deep Kiss,” a middle-aged man recalls a girlfriend whom he treated badly. Wolff brushes the actual drama into the shadows. By drawing seemingly obscure details—turning on the heater...
...American flock requires much mending. Kevin O'Toole, a lawyer and devoted churchgoer from Manchester, Vermont, says "there's still a disconnect" in the way top Church officials see the issue. "They still don't get it," he said. "They are trying to do the right thing, but it's still a measured response. And I think the time for being measured is gone." Like others, O'Toole says that senior Church officials, including bishops who transferred known abusive priests to other dioceses, have not taken responsibility for the crimes committed against children...
...that Facebook and ConnectU—a similar site launched by three Harvard graduates who allege that Zuckerberg stole the concept after working for them—will soon settle their competing law suits. Neither Facebook, ConnectU, nor Facebook’s attorneys returned requests for comment yesterday. A lawyer representing ConnectU declined to comment. According to the Times, “a person briefed on the status of the dueling lawsuits” said a settlement was expected within weeks. In Sept. 2004, ConnectU’s founders sued Facebook and Zuckerberg after first petitioning for a hearing with...
...being rejected where your family members had been accepted. And you sent in your application. Maybe Harvard does owe you.Certainly there are tougher backgrounds. All those Harvard armchairs do not exactly betoken straitened circumstances. At least one of your parents’ roommates has become a high-powered lawyer, and he probably takes you out to lunch from time to time. But being a legacy with thoughts of applying is a very specific kind of adversity. What if you don’t make it? Will this prove that your parents are in fact smarter than you are?...