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...fact her essential characteristic as described by friends is her natural reserve. One friend says that she can be thrown by a simple "How are you?" And that silences while she searches for small talk can be painful. Lynn Hecht Schafran, a lawyer at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, points out that her shyness makes some people think she is cold but that she simply has the innate 10-second delay of the careful lawyer. Says Schafran: "She thinks first and then speaks. She has learned to be unafraid of dead airtime." She is equally careful...
...boxing, it meant that the sport would lose its top attraction for the next few years; a Tyson fight with the current champ, Evander Holyfield, could have grossed $100 million. On more profound and intimate levels, the conviction brought hope of legal redress to sexual victims. Says Lynn Hecht Schafran, a New York City attorney with the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund: "The case provides a basis for people to go to the police. It should also make prosecutors pursue these cases more aggressively...
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