Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student's ability to research a problem and analyze it under non-exam conditions, his ability to exercise sound judgment in considering problems of social policy, his ability to communicate and reason orally, and his ability to work with other people. All of these are skills central to a lawyer's career. Moreover, this pressure-cooker form of evaluation is very unlike that which occurs after graduation. That evaluation--whether in a law firm, government, or teaching--takes place over time and is based on cumulative efforts...
Brother's Advice. The rumors generated by Nixon intimates did not cease, however. Then a new element materialized in the person of Murray Chotiner, 59, an old Nixon crony. The California lawyer had worked in Nixon campaigns through 1952, later became implicated in a federal conflict-of-interest investigation. Though he had not been visible in the Nixon entourage for years, all at once he was installed in an office five floors above the G.O.P. Com mittee headquarters. Calls from the White House came in on Chotiner's phone, not Bliss's. Unwilling to continue...
Central Casting would have to type Berlinguer as a white-collar Communist rather than a peasant. His lawyer grandfather was a Sardinian republican in the days of the Italian monarchy; his lawyer father was a socialist anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...
Nesson said the memo is "a good lawyer's document, so persuasive an d responsible" the faculty will not react adversely to it. Confrontation politics and name-calling might have created faculty resistance, he added...
...BLACK community has had to learn to recognize the worth and individuality of each of its members, Williams said. "On one ghetto block, you have a welfare mother, a doctor, a pimp, a lawyer--all jammed together." Conformity is impossible; understanding becomes a necessity...