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...their theatrical best, lawyers are star actors who write their own lines, improvise to meet the occasion and use the courtroom as a stage to declaim on matters of life and death. Sir John Mortimer, who died at 85 on Jan. 16, was an Oxford-trained barrister (and the son of a barrister) who proved adept at arguing his cases both in his fiction and in real life...
...gained early notice with 1957's The Dock Brief, a comic tale of an inept counsel. It was done on radio, TV and stage, then filmed with Peter Sellers. The autobiographical A Voyage Round My Father starred Alec Guinness on a West End stage and Laurence Olivier...
...wife of 22 years, until their divorce in 1971, was the novelist Penelope Mortimer; of course they both wrote tart books about their scrappy union. For John Mortimer, marriage was another stage on which to pursue great, painful debates...
...will work out is no solution either. What's needed is a new beginning: new management, new investors, new boards of directors, in some cases new institutions. That's how Citi, and the financial system in general, returned to health in the past. And that's what the next stage of the bank bailout will have to emphasize if it's going to stand a chance of success...
...when he broadened his long-promised package of tax cuts for individuals to include a larger array of deductions for businesses. These proposed tax cuts and credits take the form of accelerated depreciation schedules for certain investments and complex prior-year tax rollbacks. The surprise proposals set the stage for what is likely to be a bipartisan passage of the stimulus package. The sheer volume of these cuts - numbering in the hundreds of billions - makes it very difficult for Republicans to oppose the stimulus measure. If anything, the proposals generated protest from Obama's left flank. (Indeed, to satisfy...