Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
...H.R.C. was established to speak to the middle class in middle-class terms. Its annual black-tie fund-raising dinner is the peak event of the gay political season. The guest speaker last year was Clinton; this year's was Al Gore. Executive director Elizabeth Birch is a corporate lawyer from Silicon Valley, former head of international litigation at Apple Computer; she has run H.R.C. like a software start-up--new image, new logo, fast growth. After she came to H.R.C. in 1995, she quickly changed its symbol to a yellow equal sign on a blue background. Cool...
...Russ Feingold's life were a movie, it would be The Candidate, the 1972 film in which Robert Redford plays a handsome young lawyer running for the U.S. Senate as a clean-playing liberal unbought by the political establishment. In 1992, as a handsome 39-year-old Harvard Law graduate, Feingold got elected to the Senate from Wisconsin by promising to play clean and refusing to be bought by the political establishment. There's just one twist: at the end of the movie, Redford sells out to win; but in his first term, Feingold has remained the Senate Democrat...
...possible for Tripp to have set up the two smartest men in the world? Is Billy so stupid that he would risk his presidency for his assignations with Monica? Yes! Is the smartest lawyer in the world so stupid as not to realize that his friend Billy is having an affair with Monica? Oh, yes! My question is, How stupid do you think the American people are? Very! LUCILE THOMPSON Seeley Lake, Mont...
...give him any more money until he got himself together. Both Peter and Susie had offered to put him up, but he'd declined. No one heard from him for a few weeks. Then, he called Peter and asked for a thousand dollars to pay for a bankruptcy lawyer. Peter sent it. Susie called two weeks later; Mark's phone had been cut off. She e-mailed him, but he no longer had an account. He'd disappeared...