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Most people who file pro se--Latin for "in one's own behalf"--do so because they can't afford a lawyer, and the rest just don't want one. "They think it's kind of cool to say, 'I don't need a stupid lawyer,'" says attorney Gay Conroy, who counsels pro se filers in Ventura, Calif. TV shows like Judge Judy and legal websites like Ed Koch's TheLaw.com may embolden people by demystifying the courthouse. And antilawyer sentiment remains as potent as ever. "This is an era of do-it-yourself," says Kathleen Sampson of the American...
...general attitude, you see the look on his face as he leans back in his chair--like you're stupid. He's lounging, and you are there, trying to get a point across," says Kathryn B. Clancy '01, the president of the Radcliffe Union of Students. "He conveys the attitude that you are not important...
...leaders have shut themselves off from the outside world to the point where they're seriously out of touch with what's happening all around them," says Dowell, "and that obviously increases the risks that this heavily armed but economically desperate state could be tempted to do something stupid. Everyone involved in the region wants to do whatever they can to integrate North Korea into a wider community." In other words, anything that gets the Dear Leader out more...
...That's stupid," she said. "Goodbyes aren't something you can choose to avoid just because you don't like them. You're going to hate baldness, too, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen...
...obvious or sensational, sometimes a merely conventional version, the one that has been arrived at by consensus of the journalistic hive. The narrative line in turn dictates an attitude, the atmosphere out of which the journalist writes. Maybe the story line is that George W. Bush is a little stupid. Or that Al Gore lies about things he did in the past. Everyone loves to hear a story. But is it true...