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JASPER, Texas: Just when Jasper thought it had gotten over the horrendous killing last week in which three white men are accused of dragging a black man two miles to his death, along comes the KKK. Klansmen plan to hold a rally at the sawmill town's courthouse on June 27, a mere two weeks after the funeral of James Byrd Jr. While their appearance is the height of bad taste, and does not represent anything like the majority opinion in this racially mixed environment, City Attorney Gary Gatlin says he can't stop the white-robed ones from showing...
...biosphere door, it was a kick," he says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...
...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...
Like these early influences, Stein has found ways of standing out from the stodgy ranks of D.C. lawyers--and not just with books and clothing. He spends Saturdays in his office doing free legal work for low-income Washingtonians. "He knows every waiter and car salesman in town," says law partner Basil Mezines. In a city that takes power oh so seriously, Stein is wryly self-deprecating. Asked how it felt to be named special prosecutor for Meese, Stein said that at a time in his life when his other faculties were in decline, he was glad to be getting...
Experience on both sides of the courtroom is a hallmark of the D.C. superlawyer. It gives Cacheris an appreciation for his adversaries' tactics. It also means he might invite foes over for tennis after a grueling case. Cacheris is known to be friendly with several prosecutors in town, though Kenneth Starr is not among them. Like William Ginsburg, Cacheris can also be chummy with reporters; unlike Ginsburg, his comments to them are more wise than wise-ass. When the New York Times reminded Cacheris last week that Ginsburg had even discussed the infant Monica Lewinsky's "polkehs" (her baby...