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...after that classic nightmare of having forgotten to study for the exam comes the horrific vision of taking the test only to have the answer sheet lost. Last week in New York City the vision became reality. Portions of 542 New York bar examinations, which for the would-be lawyers who had just taken them were the culmination of years of graduate study, disappeared from the state board of law examiners' offices. The deeply abashed three-member board alerted police and quickly notified the unlucky 542 out of the 6,562 tested. "There is no way to express how wretched...
...servants but stars, an idea that inspired new talent to take up the profession. Not only did young people gravitate to cooking, but many who had trained for other careers switched. Says Wine: "It used to be that parents proudly said, 'my son the doctor' or 'my son the lawyer.' Now my father says, 'my son the chef,' and I'm a lawyer!" Indeed, many of the most dedicated chefs seem to regard their occupation with almost a missionary zeal, feeling perhaps that by cooking "honestly" from scratch and only with natural ingredients they are doing something altruistic...
...compiled by Mikey Weinstein, a Jewish graduate of the academy, who was shocked last year when his son Curtis, a cadet, told him he would "beat the s___ out of the next person who ... tells me our people are responsible for the execution of Jesus Christ." A Reagan Administration lawyer, Weinstein began documenting alleged religious slurs and church-state violations at the academy from sources that he says now number about 120, and he alerted national civil liberties groups...
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When a young lawyer named Zhou Dan started writing about being gay on Chinese websites in 2001, he hoped his honesty would help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only...