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...defense attorney who worries less about guilt and innocence than about exploiting technicalities and getting paid. Mickey Haller makes his living threading the loopholes of a tattered justice system, setting marijuana growers and fraud artists free—as long as the perpetrators can cough up the thousand-dollar fees...
...many kids at Harvard are doing many extracurriculars and balancing a thousand things and it’s not that much different except, with my extracurricular, I have to go to New York,” Remele said...
...Plan for everything to be meticulously plannedPress arrangements for such a visit are the product of delicate and exhausting negotiations by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and the White House advance staff. The Vatican, with a couple thousand years of history on its side, does not respond to urgency or pushiness. Speed, "necessity," tension - all are anathema. It's one of the few places the President or First Lady goes that the White House doesn't basically get what it wants. Vatican officials don't like e-mail - everything has to be faxed or hand-delivered, with many...
...have only unmitigated hatred for the queer movement…I fully believe that queer activists’ picture of an ideal world is a thousand-member man-animal BDSM orgy in the center of Copley Square on videotape, and I say that with all sincerity...
...writing that might demand a four-page story or a poem to accompany a leftover illustration - by lunchtime. McCaughrean calls it "the best job I ever had," and the discipline has stood her in good stead since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what...