Word: lawyering
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...Attorneys scandal has raised many more questions than it has answered, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' prepared testimony was designed to make those questions even harder to answer. But experts agree on one aspect of the controversy. "Have [Administration officials] violated the Presidential Records Act?" asks Scott Nelson, a lawyer who represented the estate of Richard Nixon in a fight over his official papers. "There's no other conclusion I can reach." Says Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archives: "The only question is whether they did it intentionally or sloppily...
WHETHER HE was playing a snobbish lawyer masterly deflating bigot Archie Bunker or performing Shakespeare on the New York City stage, Emmy-winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne emanated sophistication. Despite a few racist critics (his reply to one who said he sounded white: "I had a white maid"), the man with the tuneful baritone and restrained style crafted a reputation as an expert character actor in such diverse roles as a spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, a gay police informant in the 1968 film Up Tight!, the erudite butler on TV's Soap and the eloquent narrator...
...device to run off hundreds of copies of classified documents that she also brought home. The young woman received inadequate supervision - government documents show that the security administrator responsible for Quintana's area was not around roughly half the time, because that person had "other duties." Quintana's lawyer, Stephen Aaron, told TIME that, on occasion, she would be locked into a secure vault to work until colleagues returned. "We hope that the lessons learned from this episode can be used to make the Lab more secure in the future," he added...
...months later, the protests have died down. Some downtown Torontonians have even warmed to their "local" airline, particularly time-stressed business people like lawyer Howard Greenberg, who can see the jets ascend from his office window. "With Porter, I can leave and board the aircraft within 30 minutes," he says. "If I go to Pearson, I have to allocate two hours." He likes the service, too. The terminal features complimentary cappuccinos and, for his laptop, wireless high-speed Internet access...
...White House is hoping this new controversy - one potentially with real legal and not just political consequences - will fade fast. Rove's lawyer came out Friday to try and tamp the story down, saying that Rove thought his RNC account e-mails were being retained. "His understanding starting very, very early in the Administration was that those e-mails were being archived," the attorney, Robert Luskin, said. And already the White House's massive document dump is making useful headlines...