Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offense: the craggy-faced Arthur Liman, 54, a New York City trial lawyer whose sharp questions had already lacerated such witnesses as Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. A partner at the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Liman (estimated annual salary: $1.1 million) is a specialist in white-collar crime. Last January he joined the Iran-contra investigation for what he calls the greatest challenge of his career. For the defense: Brendan Sullivan, 45, a partner at Washington's best-known criminal- law firm, Williams & Connolly. Despite his mild appearance, Sullivan is a tireless worker and tenacious courtroom...
North also linked the perils of the Tehran trip to an offer by Secord's partner Albert Hakim to "do something for my family" if he failed to return from Iran. North said he knew that Hakim was wealthy, and he was grateful for his assistance as a translator in the Iran negotiations. That is why, when Willard Zucker, one of Hakim's lawyers, asked Mrs. North to visit him in Philadelphia, the colonel advised her to do so. Hakim had testified that North would be the beneficiary of a $2 million will if both Secord and Hakim were...
...herrings, for all their abundance, never come off as mere plot tricks. Turow, a Harvard Law Graduate who served as an assistant U.S. attorney before becoming a partner in a Chicago law firm, doesn't have to bluff to be clever. Everything--the suspicions, betrayals, attractions--come off making perfect sense, psychologically...
...Pentagon officials, having been through the wars together in Southeast Asia, formed a kind of old-boys network. Theodore Shackley, who knew Secord in Laos and had been the CIA's station chief in Saigon, worked from 1981 to 1983 as a consultant for Secord's business partner Albert Hakim. Shackley had been a candidate to become head of covert operations before his career was sidetracked by Turner. Another former Shackley associate at the CIA, Thomas Clines, helped Secord establish logistics for North's operation to supply the Nicaraguan contras...
Besides Burma, the U.S. is the only nation in the world that has not formally begun converting to metric. There was a time, while Britain was the U.S.'s major trading partner, when it would have been economic suicide to consider switching to metric. In fact, it was precisely such arguments that torpedoed Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson's proposal that the U.S. adopt a decimal-based system in 1790. A study 31 years later by his successor, John Quincy Adams, was similarly unpersuasive. But in 1866, Congress, charged by the Constitution with establishing the nation's weights and measures...