Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much has been made of George Higgins' gift of gab and nose for original sin. Much should be made. Since The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), the lawyer- novelist has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is more than a prolific genre writer about Boston's hoods and pols. His 13 novels have moved steadily beyond a cynical cop's-eye view toward a harsh realism that is informed by experience, reflection and cauterizing...
...judicial scenes benefit greatly from Higgins' experience as a lawyer and former U.S. Attorney. He avoids the cliches of courtroom drama to focus on the presiding judge and, through him, the vitality of the legal system. Judge Howard ("Black") Bart is no abstract idealist; with blunt example and sarcasm he repeatedly makes the point that separating the form from the substance of the law is dangerous to the health of the Republic...
Long hours and deep compassion for his men are typical traits of Ramaphosa, 34, a black lawyer who has emerged as South Africa's newest political star. In the five years since its founding, the black union he heads has grown into the 210,000-member force that last month engaged South Africa's gold and coal mineowners in the nation's longest strike. While the union angered some members by settling for the same package of 15%-to-23% pay raises that the companies first offered, the strike marked a turning point in black-white labor relations. Calling...
...taken some high-powered talent with him in the investment partnership known as WSGP International. The head of WSGP's thrift unit is Preston Martin, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and onetime chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gerald Parsky, a Los Angeles lawyer who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary under Simon, is his old boss's general partner and contributes his initials to the company's anagrammatic name. A select group of international investors, including Italy's Fiat-making Agnelli family, has pledged $225 million in capital...
...four occasions, including a 1977 attempt in which he used a blunt dinner knife to gouge his wrists, foot and elbow. His son, Wolf Rudiger Hess, 49, a Munich civil engineer, complained about "too many mysterious circumstances" surrounding his father's death, while Alfred Seidl, the old man's lawyer, argued that it would have been physically impossible for Hess, frail and nearly blind, to have throttled himself. The suicide was a particular embarrassment to the U.S., which for 40 years had taken monthly turns guarding the prisoner with former World War II Allies Britain, France and the Soviet Union...