Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked how they could have let the most famous double-murder suspect in history slip away under their noses, the angry police commander and the tight-faced lawyer and the whole choir of commentators all said the same thing: "We never thought he would...
...guns. Last week the independent counsel subpoenaed two private investigators in Arkansas to explain how they came to be checking out rumors for the National Enquirer that Starr himself was having an affair with a Little Rock heiress. As it happens, the Enquirer and Bill Clinton have the same lawyer: David Kendall. But they denied any investigative duet...
...Secretary-General's Manhattan residence, but only accompanied by two U.N. bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton. "I never had the sense she was particularly ambitious for him. But she's immensely proud...
...finally has proof of what he has long charged: that the Chinese are exchanging human body parts for hard currency. And last week the FBI announced it had arrested two men: a former Chinese prosecutor named Wang Chengyong, 41, and Fu Xingqi, 35, his alleged accomplice. Wang's lawyer claims his client was set up. The Chinese government said that "such incidents never happen in China" and that any violations of Chinese law would be punished. But the arrests, which come at a time of increasingly desperate organ shortages, served to focus new international attention on the harvesting of organs...
...question is whether the Playboy Channel's programming is decent. Playboy lawyer Robert Corn-Revere shipped a crate of videotapes to the FCC for review but never got a reply. "Nothing was done with them. They're sitting in a box somewhere," says the FCC's Morgan Broman. The agency ought to look soon. Last Friday Playboy and the government concluded a three-day trial in federal court in Delaware. They expect a decision by June...