Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Checchi is good looking, in the John F. Kennedy mold. He's smart, Harvard M.B.A. smart. And he's rich, very rich, centimillionaire rich. He has a gated mansion in Beverly Hills, a beautiful lawyer wife, a California tan--and enough of a '60s sensibility to feel guilty about it all. After nearly three decades of making money with the Marriott Corp., the Walt Disney Co., the Bass brothers and Northwest Airlines, Checchi says it's time to give something back. At age 49, he's running for office for the first time in his life. He wants...
...Paladin says Hit Man is being maligned unfairly, because it was written at least partly with tongue in cheek. "I have trouble taking the book seriously," says Thomas Kelley, lawyer for the publishing house. He argues that the book contains many "clearly absurd things," like its advice that hit men be careful not to remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates...
...history like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and even TV news shows contain graphic descriptions of murder, notes University of Illinois law professor Ronald Rotunda. "I wouldn't be surprised if energetic prosecutors in less enlightened jurisdictions take advantage of this decision." But Floyd Abrams, a lawyer who often defends the media, doubts the ruling can be applied much beyond manuals on how to kill. "This is a book," says Abrams, "that tests anyone's fidelity to the First Amendment...
...moment, which may extend to Academy Awards night, Matt Damon has cornered the always busy market in youthful, affronted innocence. And you have to admit he's pretty good at it. In The Rainmaker, playing Rudy Baylor, a young, undertrained lawyer trying his first case, he shows a nice sneaky knuckler, tracing an erratic path toward the strike zone. In Good Will Hunting, he pitches a sharp curve ball as a brilliant autodidact, confused by his own genius, alternately angry and vulnerable. Yet whether Damon has a high hard one, a true star's blowback fastball, is not a question...
...Searle's lawyers maintain that the Degas was legitimately sold by Friedrich Gutmann, not stolen by the Nazis. They also point out that the canvas has been exhibited over the years at major museums around the country, as well as featured in numerous art books, and that their client was unaware of the painting's disputed provenance when he bought it. Asks his lawyer, Howard Trienans: "At what point is it safe for an honest man to buy a painting from a reputable dealer...