Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrenchment of the Right--I invested in a small bouteille of Wild Turkey, into which to peer as swathes of elephants prepared to tread and defecate on major states. The Kennedy School of Government was already in Democratic rapture, as I cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish tax-evaders exculpate their vices in regular lying...
...nice to be recognized for a sport you love," Luzak said. "Making it two years in a row is especially rewarding...
...going to represent someone rich, I'm surely going to use his money to help defray the expenses of other cases. For example, the two boys who were on death row--the boys we were portraying in the movie--we just won their case this part year. That case cost a fortune to pursue and we had no resources to do that, not even expenses. So I used the fees that I earned from Von Bulow and Milken and Helmsley to pay for these boys on death row...
Half of my cases are pro-bono at any given time. I have a pro-bono fund that I put some portion of my fees into and we use that whether it's to represent boys on death row or to represent a woman whose children have been taken away from her. Half my cases are pro-bono...
...self-fulfilling prophecy. The media only focuses headline cases. For example, when we won the case of the two boys on death row--it's called the Tison case--I couldn't get any attention. None of the media would focus on that case because they weren't famous. And when we won some other cases in this office that we're very proud of, the focus was always on famous cases. So you get yourself in a little bit of a catch-22 when you take famous cases because they assume that's all you're taking. Most...