Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composition of the people who run them has not. A black woman, Charlie Mae Knight, has served as superintendent for the past 11 years; the five-person school board has just one Hispanic member; and only one of the district's school principals is Latino. Says David Giles, a lawyer who represents East Palo Alto's Latino parents in their battles with the district: "African Americans struggled for years to gain control of institutions here. To now see this community of immigrants come here and ask for some of the resources is threatening to them...
WASHINGTON: The Thompson hearings are over, the coffee tapes have been rewound, and Democrats are seeing the light at the end of the campaign fundraising scandals. Unfortunately, there's a lawyer standing in front...
SACRAMENTO: Somewhere between New York State and California, David Kaczynski, brother of Unabomber suspect Theodore, is making his way to his sibling's murder trial. "He's driving 3,000 miles cross-country to save his brother," said David's lawyer, Anthony Bisceglie...
AARON "MODELS INC." SPELLING AGE: 70ish HEIGHT: 5 ft. 10 in. WEIGHT: 132 OCCUPATION: TV guy BEST PUNCH: Defending the firing of a pregnant Tylo from Melrose Place, a lawyer said, "Would Roseanne Barr be hired to play a dramatic role as Miss America...
...entertainment industry, but the attorneys here are talking awfully tough. "This is the most egregious case I've ever seen," says Chase-Riboud's attorney, who is asking for $10 million in damages and threatening to seek an injunction to block the film's release. Spielberg's lawyer retorts that the plaintiff is "nuts" and that her novel is "wordy, dull, confusing and phony." So there...