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...decades later, Ahsan is still trying to break authoritarian rule. Now president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, he led tens of thousands of lawyers and other pro-democracy activists in nationwide demonstrations last summer after President Pervez Musharraf sacked the independent-minded Chief Justice. The protests received little more than token support from the Bush Administration, but they rattled Musharraf, prompting him to suspend the constitution, dismiss the Supreme Court and lock up hundreds of political and civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since...
...Bail set for Florida lawyer Kathy Brewer Rentas after she was charged with assault for vigorously shaking the hand of a fellow attorney. An official claims she almost ripped the prosecutor's arm out of its socket...
...movie tells the story of Tatyana, an ordinary Aeroflot air hostess, who, between flights from her native Kaliningrad to Leningrad, falls in love with Alexander Alexandrovich Platov, an ordinary non-descript "lawyer" who soon gets a posting in Germany...
...flexibility and similarity of scheduling helps a lot,” maintains Imbens. “If one of the spouses is a lawyer or some executive type, then it would be much harder to accommodate an academic schedule...
...McGee was placed on administrative leave effective Jan. 7, pending the outcome of the matter,” said Kofi Jones, the spokesman for McGee’s supervisor, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Daniel O’Connell. Calls placed to McGee’s home and lawyer were not returned. The Democratic leadership in the legislature also did not respond to requests for comment. McGee, who had worked on several pieces of legislation with Patrick, according to The Boston Globe, is scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges of sexual battery. A 1992 magna cum laude...