Word: lawyerly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard needed an advocate in Washington, so it tapped Rowe, who had once been NBC's top D.C. lawyer, to lead the world's richest university through the Republican Revolution unscathed...
...born teachers, but I think all of us have some capacity to share knowledge and make a difference. Even if you are really set on talking that job at Goldman Sachs, you can still tutor in math during your free time. Even if you were meant to be a lawyer, you can still take a few years off to teach history before entering the courtroom. And if you are meant to be in the classroom, share your desire to teach with your friends. None of us would be at Harvard without the influence of our teachers, and we are hardpressed...
...Oprah? Recalls Morrison: "She said, and this is kind of charming, 'I am going in my pocketbook and write a check.' I wasn't talking to a studio or a lawyer but to another human being. If you'll excuse it, it reminded me of myself. A single black woman who said, 'Well, I'm doing this. It's going to be hard for me, but that's beside the point.' This was a big project and, for her, a big deal. And she was deadly serious about every aspect...
During an especially low moment of the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that "for goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks." Thurgood Marshall's legal career proves otherwise. Juan Williams' magisterial biography of the great civil rights lawyer and first black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (Times Books; 459 pages; $27.50), reminds us that there is a difference between the hair-splitting legalisms that dominate the current headlines and the rule of law that changes history. Marshall never represented a bank. His clients were African Americans deprived of their...
...Democratic candidates have become leery of appearing with her husband. Wu, for instance, insists he was misquoted in a New York Times story that suggested he would prefer Clinton stay away. But asked whether that means he would like to see the President make a stop in Portland, the lawyer replied, "Didn't say that either." Oregon's Democratic Governor, John Kitzhaber, has put it more bluntly, saying he would decline any offers by the White House to send Clinton into the state. "The issue would just be the President's behavior, not the campaign," Kitzhaber said...