Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strongest legal option for forcing the President to tell his story, it is Starr's weakest political option. As Lewinsky's father Bernard pointed out last week, many Americans might have trouble with the idea of a special prosecutor sacrificing a pawn to corner the king. Lewinsky's lawyer William Ginsburg, in an open letter to Starr published last week in California Lawyer, wrote, "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!... You may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults"--which of course seems to suggest that his client perjured herself when she denied the affair under oath, but nonetheless...
...incoherently of murdering her husband. After removing a gun from her purse, the friend took Brynn back to her home at dawn. But as the kids were carried out, she locked herself in the bedroom with a second gun and shot herself in the head. The Times quoted a lawyer who handled Hartman's 1985 divorce as saying the couple "had a pattern of arguing at night, and he would go to sleep and everything would be fine in the morning." Not this time...
...learned of the Holocaust only as an assistant prosecutor at the first Nuremberg trial. He was chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer and a professor, he scrutinized public officials, and spoke out against McCarthyism and the Vietnam...
When he arrived at Harvard four years ago, Gonzalo C. Martinez '98 wanted to be a lawyer and hadn't even considered joining an ethnic student organization...
While Martinez says he had a difficult time deciding to attend graduate school and having to forgo his life-long dream of becoming a lawyer, Garcia says Martinez is well-suited to a career in academia...