Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stick to what got you there. For Turow, what got you there is an engaging and intricate mystery that pays careful attention to the ins and outs of the legal system. Burden of Proof even retains as its protagonist a character from Presumed Innocent, the defense lawyer Sandy Stern...
Despite the similarities to its predecessor, Burden of Proof creates a separate identity for itself. Its borrowed character, Stern, figured only in the minor role of legal mastermind in Presumed Innocent. In his recent book, Turow creates the fuller character of a man tortured by his wife's death...
Burden of Proof begins when Stern returns home from one of his many business trips to another city and finds that his wife, Clara, has committed suicide by running the car motor all day with the garage door closed. Stern's initial investigation into her suicide turns up few clues, but he soon discovers that she has been treated for herpes by a doctor who lives next door. This is a fairly clear sign to Stern that Clara's disappointment with him goes back for a long time...
...scouts had predicted, yet it seemed to singe everybody but the nominee. His handlers stashed the gray-suited Souter in the shadowy Room 468 of the Old Executive Office Building, then trotted him around the Senate for get-acquainted handshakes and dined him in the White House mess, both stern tests of his stomach...
Soviet immigrants, for their part, are aware that the situation could lead to a nasty backlash. Says Yuri Stern, a Soviet immigrant and adviser to the Knesset: "We are worried that the homeless problem may create divisions. Either we are going to solve it or it will create unrest, and that could be damaging to everyone...