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Dershowitz, who is known for his handling of high-profile clients such as Claus von Bulow and Leona Helmsley, discussed the Tyson trial during an appearance on the Dennis Miller Show on Thursday night...
...There are countless examples. The sense of arrogance can be Donald Trump saying his bankers were tossing money at him or John Gutfreund's Salomon Brothers cornering the treasury-bill market illegally and failing to report it. It can be Leona ("Only the little people pay taxes") Helmsley and her bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose...
...nothing resembling a moral deficiency. We know that something, probably an ego deficit, made them obsessed with proving competence. They carry an open wound that they're really running to escape from. In Leona's case, it would seem that she was running from a fear of being "a little person," and the fact that she was a real estate saleswoman who happened to marry one of the richest men in New York...
...trade is bristling over TV ads for Disney's newly revived One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The 1961 classic portrays the fiendish CRUELLA DE VIL as a Leona Helmsley-esque character obsessed with luxury furs. The ads create "a gruesome picture in ((children's)) minds, making them understandably upset the next time they see their mother put on a fur coat," complains Fur Age Weekly editor Lisa Marcinek. Joining the fray, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals exhorts parents to expose their children to the film's "playful, yet solid antifur message." And so they are. Dalmatians has pulled...
...admire Dershowitz because he has a sturdy and true moral compass. As a public figure, he sticks up for ideals of human rights and civil liberties where others would let pragmatism prevail; as an attorney, he is famous for defending pariah clients such as Claus Von Bulow and Leona Helmsley and insisting on procedural regularity and the rights of the accused. But just like a compass needle starts to go awry in the neighborhood of a magnet, Dershowitz's moral compass often veers from course when the topic at hand is Israel or Judaism...