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...DeLay's lawyer Richard Cullen says that if those who worked for the former House majority leader were doing anything shady, their boss had no inkling of it. "Certainly he would be very, very sad and disappointed if it turns out any of his staffers did anything that was inappropriate?not just illegal but inappropriate," Cullen tells TIME. "He demands honesty and excellence from his employees...
...heard Tim say over the radio, "The only time I want to see your legs spread like that is if I am between them.'" The board suspended Nardiello pending an investigation; the New York State supreme court this week is set to hear his petition for reinstatement. Nardiello's lawyer, James Brooks, told TIME his client made the "legs spread" comment just once, in 2002, to remind an athlete to position her body correctly on the sled. Did Nardiello try to kiss Canfield, 40? "Never," Brooks says. "You ever seen her?" Here's a lawyer who believes offense...
...English name her parents had given her?May?in favor of her middle name, which is Japanese for bright. "I started using it because I wanted people meeting me to have to?for one minute?struggle or acknowledge I was a little different," says Heshiki, 31, now a lawyer in Portland...
...society, cricket jock and wildly successful author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, whose life of late-Victorian virtue goes all squiffy when he accidentally acquires a passion for a woman not his wife. Doyle also acquires a late-life project in the form of George Edalji, a half-Indian lawyer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Barnes, a top-shelf British novelist whose work doesn't always cross the Atlantic well, has created a slow-burning, enlargingly human tale of reasonable men whose expectations about the world are first deeply disappointed and then strangely redeemed...
...maverick or extremist," says Susan L. Sullivan, a legal consultant in San Francisco and self-described liberal Democrat who clerked for Alito in 1990 and '91. Sullivan thinks opponents are "cherry-picking decisions." But that is standard procedure for any confirmation fight. And Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer who has known Alito for decades and likes him personally, says the nominee would certainly move the court to the right on a wide range of issues. Mark Tushnet, a constitutional-law professor at Georgetown University, says he takes his cues from the enthusiasm of Alito's conservative supporters...