Word: lawyerly
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What makes President Mandela even more extraordinary is his choice to trade a life of relative privilege for one of unceasing struggle. Of royal lineage, President Mandela was groomed from birth to take a high office in regional government. He left home, however, to become a lawyer, fighting abject poverty while earning his degree. Eventually he launched a promising legal career that could have spared him some of the trials he saw his fellow South Africans suffer...
James J. Rafferty, a Cambridge lawyer and along-time political observer, believespre-election polls tend to undercut Flynn'ssupport, as some voters may not want to admit tosupporting the former mayor before the primary...
...Common Cause and Republican leaders because, she has said, the case did not meet the independent-counsel law's test that there be "specific and credible charges" about the President or some other high official. While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns, no great revelations," says a a lawyer familiar with the case, "the Justice Department bases its interpretation of the law on what the FEC says, and once they say something's improper, bingo. It's specific and credible." The issues seem plain. "These ads were produced and designed by the campaign media consultants," says Common Cause president...
WASHINGTON: The "vigorous defense" continues, even on a Saturday. Clinton lawyer David Kendall issued a second rebuttal, a 42-page addendum to Friday's 73-page installment. It contained further objections to Starr's report that already sound familiar: The President's acts were wrong but "do not even approach the Constitutional test of impeachment -- treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors... it is plain that sex is precisely what this four-and-a-half-year investigation has boiled down...
...Clinton's alleged obstructions, such as the "Titanic"-inspired mash note and the suggested cover stories, rely on Monica's account alone. "Anything substantive took place out of earshot of anyone else -- it's all dependent on that," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, who is also a lawyer. And Starr's relentlessly salacious drags Monica through the mud right along with Clinton. "Starr may have done himself a disservice by presenting the naked Lewinsky," says Kluger. "She becomes a less credible, less stable witness." Of course, this case isn't going to court -- it's going to Congress...