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...would follow their father Juan Carlos on the throne. Today, Spanish law allows sex changes - and some of the country's 17 autonomous regions perform them on the public health service - but little Leonor won't require the surgeon's knife to become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what...
Even as she runs a state of 5.7 million people, Napolitano has traveled extensively to strengthen her political connections around the country. A lawyer, she first attracted national attention in 1991, when she represented Anita Hill in her sexual-harassment case against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. In 2000, just three weeks after mastectomy surgery, Napolitano addressed the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. The pain was so bad, she says, she could barely stand up, but she knew the nation was watching. Four years later she was being mentioned as a potential running mate for John Kerry...
...strained voice, and his palpable age all gave the impression that this was a friend who knew he would be saying goodbye for only a short time.His began by noting that “Everything we have heard here today is true. John was a good man, a good lawyer, and a good father.” He paused, and then continued “but there is another thing that we here today should know about John Sutton.” I was waiting for another platitude, more generalities, or at best a short story from the war that...
...appellate lawyer Howard J. Bashman, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the Bush administration’s military recruitment policy is indeed constitutional, predicted that at least seven justices would vote to uphold the Solomon Amendment. In a phone interview with The Crimson this week, he stood by that forecast. “I don’t think it’s going to be that close of a vote,” Bashman said...
...Christian, part of a legal team headed by billionaire Texas tobacco litigator John O'Quinn, who is amassing a case against Badian, other hedge funds and now possibly Refco. Refco declined to comment. Badian didn't come to the door when a TIME reporter rang his bell. His lawyer in the civil cases, Perrie Weiner, says that the suits against Badian have "not a shred of merit" and that courts have consistently dismissed such cases...