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Ginsburg insists it was his idea that Lewinsky seek new lawyers. He says he suggested it to her more than a week before Cacheris and Stein came on board. "My aggressive and outgoing style and strategy had lost effectiveness," he explains. "We had hit a wall." Sources close to the family have told TIME a different story. They say that Ginsburg had to be pried off the team, did not know a search for new lawyers was under way and was told about the change just minutes before Wednesday's announcement...
...Angeles and arrived in Washington to interview several candidates. One of them was Tom Green, a steely litigator who was impressed at the trenchant questions Monica directed at him a source close to Green said. But the Lewinsky family had in mind a team concept, which Green resisted. Stein won over the Lewinskys partly because they liked the idea of bringing on board someone who had been an independent counsel. Just before noon on Tuesday, she signed off on Stein and Cacheris. Borrowing a line from the movie Bulworth, Ginsburg insists that he's not out of the game altogether...
...Stein, a senior researcher at the Wesley College Center for Research on Women, believes sexual violence and harassment is on the rise in schools, and she says, "It's happening between kids who are dating or want to be dating or used to date." Linda Osmundson, executive director of the Center Against Spouse Abuse in St. Petersburg, Fla., notes that "it seems to be coming down to younger and younger girls who feel that if they don't pair up with these guys, they'll have no position in their lives. They are pressured into lots of sexual activity...
...town where lawyers are pressed from cookie cutters, stuffed into gray suits and sent off to work in colorless law factories, Jacob Stein is a rarity--he's a character. He takes midday literary breaks in his antiques-strewn office to leaf through 18th-century British classics. He wears dapper chalk-striped suits and two-toned shoes to court. And he has been known to send the detachable collars and cuffs from his hand-tailored shirts to London for laundering...
...beneath Stein's quirky urban-gentleman exterior beats the heart of a Washington insider's Washington insider. A former president of the D.C. bar, Stein is the man politicians turn to when their dignity is on the line, the issue is delicate or the stakes are high. He represented Oregon Senator Robert Packwood when he was charged with sexual misconduct. Reagan press secretary James Brady hired Stein when he filed several lawsuits after being paralyzed by bullets meant for his boss. And when a special prosecutor was needed in 1984 to investigate Reagan-aide Ed Meese, it was Stein...