Word: zobell
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Many have speculated that the show’s creator David E. Kelley based this fictional Judge Zoe Hiller on the real-life former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, Hiller B. Zobel...
...District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel, who graduated with 18 other women in 1956, said that as a woman in a pre-feminist era, she did not think too much about the prejudices against...
...felt much less discriminated against by the law school than the women did later on,” Zobel said. “But that’s because we weren’t terribly sensitive...
...state of politics was "far from ideal"; it didn't directly point the finger at MalacaNang, but the seemingly calculated ambiguity allowed others to do so. The favorite charge is that she's no different from Estrada?or not different enough ("same dog with a different collar," says businessman Zobel, who predicts some kind of mass uprising before the summer is out). One of her first Cabinet nominations was a former general who was being investigated for corruption. Accusations against her husband?for steering government money to favored Senate campaigns, and for taking bribes?have likewise been damaging...
...sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where hackers have the chance to lash out at powerful institutions they consider repressive. "In cyberspace it doesn't matter if you're a Roxas, a Lopez or a Zobel," he says, ticking off the Philippines' leading families. "No one knows your identity. You can't begin to imagine the impact this has on a hierarchical society like ours...