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China's leaders are vulnerable at a number of pressure points. They are trying to persuade Washington to spurn Taiwan's requests for an advanced antimissile radar system and are desperately trying to win this July's vote by the International Olympic Committee for China to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. Gao's lawyer, Jerome Cohen, therefore holds out hope. "When a dispute gets to that level, intelligent leaders won't want to damage themselves over a nothing case," he says. China may also be particularly sensitive now, as news broke last week of the defection in December...
China's leaders are vulnerable at a number of pressure points. They are trying to persuade Washington to spurn Taiwan's requests for an advanced antimissile radar system and are desperately trying to win this July's vote by the International Olympic Committee for China to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. Gao's lawyer, Jerome Cohen, therefore holds out hope. "When a dispute gets to that level, intelligent leaders won't want to damage themselves over a nothing case," he says. China may also be particularly sensitive now, as news broke last week of the defection in December...
Boies charges up to $750 an hour for his time and brings in far larger fees from plaintiffs' class actions--work in which the knives are long, the stakes are high and the fees higher. Firms like Cravath spurn suits like these, which run against the interests of their corporate clients. Firms like Boies, Schiller & Flexner, new enough to be free from such conflicts, do not. From last year's settlement of a case involving price fixing in the vitamin market, Boies, Schiller stands to collect a fee of $40 million; from this year's auction-house case, the firm...
...explains Moravec. "The irony in my music is not glibly postmodern but rather the essence of making audible the human experience of ambiguity." Though Liebermann employs all the tools of the up-to-the-second composer--he even has a website, www.lowellliebermann.com--he too is quick to spurn the cheap irony of such trendy postmodernists as Britain's Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face). "We live in a sarcastic age," Liebermann says with a shrug. "A lot of intellectuals are uncomfortable with genuineness...