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Yet Walsh has often seemed most creative when he turns apparent weakness into unorthodox strength. At Stanford that has proved to be something of a necessity. Walsh inherited a stout defense from his predecessor and onetime protege Dennis Green. The offense is a different story. With the exception of Glyn...
The proximate cause, as a lawyer might say, is his defiance of Russia's highest judicial authority, the Constitutional Court. But the case is much broader: it pits Gorbachev against his protege-turned-riva l-turned-successor, Boris Yeltsin; it reveals the primitive, confused nature of legality in a country...
EVEN IN HOLLYWOOD, FEW WOULD RECOGNIZE HELEN Kushnick if they passed her on the street. But they all know the talented young comic she discovered two decades ago and guided to glory. Weathering a Sophoclean series of tragedies (her son's death from AIDS in 1983, her husband's death...
The Bank of Credit & Commerce International has cost depositors around the world billions in losses, ensnared officials in scores of countries in corrupt money-laundering schemes and acted like a government unto itself. Now its criminal operations have led to the indictment of an 85-year-old man with a...
The leaders of the People's Republic richly deserve sanctions. The people themselves, however, don't. Ever since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Congress has been looking for ways to beat up on Deng Xiaoping, 87, and his hard-line protege, Premier Li Peng. In addition to repressing its...