Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press forward with his probe into whether Clinton lied under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and tried to cover it up. But it said much about his team's p.r. problems that even before the Wright decision came down, Starr had reached out to Stuart Taylor, the lawyer and journalist who had legitimized the Jones case in a landmark 1996 piece for the American Lawyer, and asked him to write Starr's report to Congress. Taylor turned him down on Monday. On Wednesday the Jones' case was dismissed, and then came more bad news the next day. Judge...
...political terrain keeps shifting beneath him. "Independent counsels need to take a measure of their environment and the temperature of the community," whether a jury or Congress, said Washington criminal defense lawyer Tom Green. With the dismissal of Jones v. Clinton, "it will look even more like the only reason Starr's probing into some of these areas is to learn more about Clinton's sex life," said another legal observer...
...Hillary and her Rose law colleagues later called a housekeeping effort. In 1996 her billing records for the deal, which Starr had sought for two years, turned up in the White House residence; they showed that Hillary had billed at least 30 hours of work on Castle Grande. Her lawyer said that she had known the project by another name and that she was not involved in any fraud...
...Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and party organizer...
...Think Different." Gandhi, in his younger days a sophisticated and Westernized lawyer, did indeed change his thinking more radically than most people do. Ghanshyam Das Birla, one of the merchant princes who backed him, once said, "He was more modern than I. But he made a conscious decision to go back to the Middle Ages." This is not, presumably, the revolutionary new direction in thought that the good folks at Apple are seeking to encourage...