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...fall of 1970, you had the opportunity to attend Harvard Law School. You chose The Washington Post instead. What specifically pulled you away from law school into the newspaper world? Did you just not want to be a lawyer...
...State attorneys will review the police findings, then recommend a course of action to the Attorney General, whose decision is expected in three or four weeks. Israel's justice system theoretically operates under the rubric of "innocent until proven guilty," and Katsav's lawyer and allies claimed he was set up: "We know he is being framed and he is being blamed of things that did not happen," said his brother, Lior Katsav. But the volume and gravity of the charges generated immediate fallout. Minister of Education Yuli Tamir called on Katsav to resign - he is immune from prosecution while...
After three years as a civil rights lawyer and law professor in Chicago, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate and quickly established himself as different from most of the other African-American legislators. "He was passionate in his views," says state senator Dave Syverson, a Republican committee chairman who worked on welfare reform with Obama. "We had some pretty fierce arguments. We went round and round about how much to spend on day care, for example. But he was not your typical party-line politician. A lot of Democrats didn't want to have any work requirement...
...openly addressed the problem they present in any substantial way. And we are left angrily wondering whether there is anything, beyond payoffs, that can be done about this situation. You need only watch the smooth and civilized O?Grady, cracking little jokes as he fences with a lawyer, to understand that a few sessions with a shrink are not going to deliver anyone from the evil he represents. Included herein are the ritual appeals for an end to the celibate priesthood, but that?s not going to happen, either - it is an idea too firmly entrenched for successful attack...
...profit came out of an unusual collaboration with a former casino lawyer, Jay Brown. Reid and Brown initially bought adjoining plots in Las Vegas' booming suburbs in 1998. They transferred the land to a company called Patrick Lane in 2001; Reid's share was valued at the same amount, $400,000, as he had originally paid for the property. Three years later, he was paid $1.1 million when Patrick Lane sold the land to a shopping mall developer. Though Reid and Brown claim they were joint owners of the company, they say no documents exist to prove Reid's position...