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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now the idea is just a gleam in the eyes of U.S. officials in Sri Lanka. But if they have their way, the snake-devouring mongoose, celebrated in the 1894 Kipling classic Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, may eventually replace the German shepherd as the drug sniffer of choice at some international airports. The U.S. embassy in Colombo is so intrigued with the idea that it has asked the State Department for $10,000 to fund a mongoose training school at the Colombo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Calling All Mongooses | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Your description of Boston Criminal Lawyer Rikki Klieman's attempt to polish up the image of her client, the alleged kingpin in a truck-hijacking operation, was disturbing. If women lawyers have to cozy up to clients in order to con a jury into an acquittal, then feminism is making no progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Early in her career, fledgling Attorney Rikki Klieman made a major mistake. She failed to prepare fully for a simple bail hearing, thinking that her friendship with the opposing lawyer would help her win. She lost. "I learned then," she recalls, "never, ever to walk into a courtroom without knowing everything I could possibly know about my case." Today Klieman, 35, is among Boston's best defense lawyers, in charge of the criminal trial division at the city's prestigious firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. Says one of the city's top criminal lawyers, Joseph Balliro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The New Women in Court | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

Chuck Jones is a newcomer to the juvenile genre, but in his field, cartoon animation, he is second only to Disney. Here, Jones has abandoned Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner for Rikki-tikki-tavi and The White Seal (Ideals; $4.95 each). Part of the success of these slim volumes lies in Jones' choice of collaborator: a spellbinder named Rudyard Kipling, who spins haunting yarns of a cobra-slaying mongoose and an arctic mammal growing from naive pup to leader of the pack. But most of the credit must go to the illustrator-magician who makes 90-year-old stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short Shelf of Tall Tales | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

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