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...chorus of complaint, a last hurrah and then nothing. The stark ending moves Kirsch to acrid eloquence. "The life of Moses can be understood as an existential tragedy," he writes. "He was cast adrift at birth in a hostile world, he spent a long and lonely life in constant pursuit of a goal that always eluded him, and he died a lonely death...
Mike Espy's lawyer Reid Weingarten was right on the money when he dismissed the prosecution's case as a "relentless pursuit of the trivial." Espy's transgressions were of the sort better judged in the court of public opinion than in a court of law. In that venue, he has already been punished. Despite the bravado he flashed on the courthouse steps when he denounced independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz as a "schoolyard bully," Espy knows he blew a historic opportunity by losing sight of age-old black moral traditions...
After all, Pinochet never would have been arrested if he had not done the right thing: giving up power in 1990 to a democratic government, after holding a free election. His reward? Pursuit by moral preeners up and down Europe who think they have established some new international norm of morality...
...pretending he is an old friend of her husband; while her husband is away, the crooks invent a story of a police investigation of her husband from which only the discovery of the now missing doll can save him. Rote masterminds the plot--as the story unfolds, his pursuit of Suzy becomes more and more obvious, prompting the age-old dramatic question, how can a blind woman defend herself...
...title that draws you in--"Greed, Sex, Lies and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair." It's the title that promises an unprecedented expose of the secret lives of lawyers, a positively hair-raising account of what really goes on in those board rooms and oak-paneled office buildings. It's the title that feeds on this decade's ambivalent fascination with lawyers to attract an audience...