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...more by Ma Bell. The company today wants $5.8 billion, which would be tripled to a jangling $17.4 billion. Asked at AT&T's annual meeting last week if he felt MCI would get anywhere near the damages it wants, Chairman Charles Brown said firmly, "No." An AT&T lawyer described MCI's demands as "monstrous...
...began earning a reputation as "the best coalition builder ever to sit on the Supreme Court," says L.A. Scot Powe Jr., a University of Texas law professor and former clerk to Justice William O. Douglas. Brennan has never relinquished the role. A dedicated pragmatist, the onetime New Jersey labor lawyer now uses his negotiating skills to bring the shifting middle of the court--Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Byron White--closer to the liberal corner that he shares with Thurgood Marshall and often John Paul Stevens. A hesitating colleague is likely to be asked, "Would you be happier...
...script and no score. So I have to hire an attorney. It's funny, but it's not so funny. That's the IRS for you. Not a thing you can do about it. The way they're going to get their money is through the taxes the lawyer pays 'em after me payin...
...Challenger was narrowed to ten educators, who apparently became a close-knit group during testing early this month in Houston. "When that shuttle goes, there may be one body," said McAuliffe, choking up, "but there are ten souls that I am taking with me." McAuliffe, 36, married to a lawyer (they have two children), teaches social science at Concord High School in New Hampshire. To "humanize the technology of the space age," she is planning to bring back a diary for her students (and the rest of the country). "I'm still kind of floating," says...
...culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition as a syllabus of dead white males. But he actually belonged to no faction, identified with no cause. Like Ijah Brodsky, the lawyer in his story Cousins, he did no marching. Not even to a different drummer, like Thoreau. No marching, period...