Word: phillips
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...plot is easy to summarize, although not for the person who tells it. He is Phillip Carver, 49, a bachelor who learns from his two older sisters in Memphis that their father, 81 and a widower, is planning to remarry. Phillip believes he has long since escaped Memphis and old associations; he works for a publishing house in Manhattan and collects rare books. But his live-in girlfriend Holly has just moved out on him, and he is lonely and therefore vulnerable to appeals from the past. There is also the matter of his father's "not inconsiderable fortune...
That is not all he considers. Before he boards the airplane that will take him to Memphis, either to defend his father from his sisters or vice versa, Phillip picks through a tangled skein of memories. The crucial incident in the Carver history, as he sees it, occurred in 1931, when his father moved his family, his wife and four children, including the youngest, Phillip, 13, from Nashville to Memphis. George Carver, an eminently respectable lawyer, had been "deceived and nearly financially ruined" by his business association with a Nashville entrepreneur. Old-fashioned honor demanded a move to a place...
Among other recent arrivals is the Asian cockroach, which, unlike the too familiar German variety, flies and -- most ominously -- lives happily both indoors and out. Phillip Koehler, an entomologist at the University of Florida, received a phone call last fall from a pest-control company in Lakeland, Fla., a city 36 miles east of Tampa. "They thought they had a heavy infestation of German cockroaches," he recalls. The difference between the two species became clear when the bugs, attracted by light, began flocking toward people's homes. "In the evening, when they are most active," says Koehler, "they literally cover...
Rubin's dilemma has dogged lawyers and courts since the beginnings of the legal profession. "It is an unchallenged rule of professional ethics that a lawyer may not put on a witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed...
...project will get off the ground still," said Phillip Heymann, associate dean of the Law School. He added that Tribe was an excellent person to run the magazine but there were other people who could do a very good...