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...partisan Democrat, he has brought cases against a long line of tough adversaries--organized crime, gun manufacturers, air polluters, Korean grocers who don't pay minimum wage. His efforts have not always succeeded. Yet he has consistently used laws in novel ways to address wrongs that were in plain view but seemed intractable to others. And, as was the case with Merrill, his endeavors have been about pursuing a path of justice even before the precise nature of a case is clear. "He's the real deal," says Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor who hired Spitzer...
Spitzer's gift is a plain-talking sensibility. He was a brilliant student and a star athlete, but he doesn't connect emotionally with people or ooze charisma like a Bill Clinton. He is attractive, though not in a classic way. His strikingly deep-set eyes underscore his drive and intensity. And his pronounced chin once moved the New York Times to comment, "His jaw actually juts." Spitzer has a cheeky sense of humor. (At the Institutional Investor magazine awards dinner for market analysts in November, he opened his speech by saying, "It is wonderful to be here this evening...
Miss Peggy Lee, they always called her. If the honorific was meant to elevate a plain stage name (she was born Norma Deloris Egstrom), the effort was redundant; for Lee, vocally and visually, was class and sass in one platinum package. Statue-still onstage, whispering her lyrics like postcoital pillow talk, Lee gave a guilty-secret glow to the blandest ballads. By the mid-'40s she was a pop star and a rare singer-songwriter (It's a Good Day, Manana); in 1955 she composed songs for Disney's Lady and the Tramp and 36 years later won a suit...
...least one choice is relatively simple and can be rendered in plain English. Do you want to be able to take pictures with your phone and email them to anyone from anywhere? Cell phones with cameras are all the rage in Japan, and they're starting to invade our shores. The quality isn't exactly Ansel Adams, but the quick-pic payoff--Look, Ma, here I am in the Big Apple!--can be addictive. Imagine all the day-to-day situations in which it would be nice to show someone what you're seeing at the moment...
...Right now we’re paying more attention to the Yard and assigning more units to the Yard, with both plain-clothes and uniformed officers in the times these incidents have occurred,” he said...