Word: lawyering
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...some donors have been promised places in the House of Lords in return for their generosity. Labour is not the only party under scrutiny, but the pledges of impeccable probity made when it came to power in 1997 are coming back to haunt it. Levy's arrest, said his lawyer, "was unnecessary, disproportionate and ... entirely theatrical." An instinct for showbiz partly explains his prominence. Success in the music industry moved Levy into exalted circles. He met Blair at a 1994 dinner party. A peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years later. Not everyone was so lucky...
...situation developed over time, we began to get some indications...that there may be an injured U.S. military member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...
...really want us to be friends and conquer the business world together," MICHAEL JACKSON once told former porn producer F. Marc Schaffel's answering machine. But Schaffel is suing the pop star for $1.6 million in debts allegedly accrued while he managed Jackson's finances. The singer's lawyer says Schaffel is just another associate who took advantage of Jackson's "almost childlike" nature. As the trial unfolds, details of the star's unusual fiscal choices are emerging...
ELECTED. Felipe Calder?n, 43, conservative, Harvard-educated lawyer and member of the ruling National Action Party, as President of Mexico; beating leftist rival Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador by less than one percentage point; in Mexico City. L?pez Obrador, the Mexico City Mayor, has refused to accept the results of the hotly contested poll and vowed to challenge the vote in court, a move that could plunge the nation into an electoral crisis similar to the disputed U.S. elections...
...Shpigelman, 23, a Merril Lynch analyst who has also been charged in the case. The New York Post reported last Friday that Plotkin must wear an ankle bracelet to track his whereabouts and to keep him under house arrest. According to the Post, Edward Little, Plotkin’s lawyer in the case, argued in court at his client’s release last Friday that Plotkin will not flee authorities and should not have to wear the bracelet. “He’s a Harvard graduate. He’s lived here his entire life...