Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manzie managed to meet Simmons continually for months without his parents' knowledge is something of a mystery, but Sam Manzie's lawyer, Michael Critchley, is quick to defend their nurturing: "They provided support, they supplied understanding. When necessary, they supplied psychiatric assistance. As much as could be done, they did." The Manzies finally learned of the relationship when they noticed phone calls to Simmons on their long-distance bills. The Manzies sent Sam to a therapist and then warned Simmons to stay away from their son. His therapist contacted authorities about the boy's abuse...
LITTLE ROCK: Perhaps it was never the most pertinent part of Paula Jones' lawsuit, but it was certainly the most salacious ? and the one that attracted the most popular attention. Now it appears to be crumbling. A lawyer for President Clinton has finally said that he has learned what "distinguishing characteristic" Ms. Jones claims she saw on the presidential body ? and that it doesn't exist. Jones' legal team faxed Clinton attorney Robert Bennett a copy of her detailed affidavit describing what she claims to have seen on the President's private zone that night in an Arkansas hotel room...
...some cadets do not want to risk serving in what the Army calls the "unrestricted" combat sector for four years-a time when they could be working as a lawyer, doctor or intelligence officer...
Chen had his sights set on working as a human-intelligence officer or as a lawyer in the military court, known as the Judge Advocate General-Corps (JAG). He thought that as a Harvard alumnus the likelihood of landing such a job would be high, but after one year at ROTC he said he felt his chances were sufficiently slim to warrant leaving the program...
Hunter shrugs off all the charges. Too many plea bargains? Just "locker-room talk" from cops. Closeness to Ramsey lawyers? "A bogus issue," he says. (Boulder lawyer Tom Lamm agrees that "Alex doesn't cross over that line to do anything that would suggest collusion.") The D.A. insists he is not being slow, just deliberate. Says Hunter: "This case is not in a posture for presentation" to a judge or jury. The obvious, though unspoken message: for all their leaking of dark suspicions about the Ramseys, the police have not shown Hunter enough hard evidence to support an arrest...