Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admissions, in contrast to 4.3% (416) the year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...tricky spot the independent counsel found himself in last week after Deputy Attorney General ERIC HOLDER told Starr to probe charges that one of his main Whitewater witnesses took money originating with billionaire Clinton hater RICHARD SCAIFE. Happy to point out the awkwardness of this situation was presidential lawyer DAVID KENDALL. In a five-page letter, obtained by TIME, Kendall explained why Starr is the wrong man to investigate DAVID HALE, who has accused the President of wrongdoing. Not only has Starr relied heavily on Hale's testimony, Kendall notes, but his own FBI agents are alleged to have driven...
Mitchell's role as head of the settlement talks was played without formal authority, only the respect he earned from all the parties. Working without pay, he juggled peacemaking with his regular job as a Washington lawyer, while navigating family crises, including his brother's death, his wife's miscarriage and the birth of their first child in October. After the pact was finalized, there was another area of agreement--for what Blair called the "infinite patience and kindness" of Mitchell. Clinton said Mitchell was "brilliant," while maintaining modestly that he himself just "did what I was asked...
...series of montages saturated with stereotypes to track the "developing" friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...
Boylston stipulated that a clergyman, an academic and a lawyer must judge the competition...