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...more like passed over. Last week, at the ceremonies starting the U.S. Open and inaugurating the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, Gibson's name echoed in the list of past tournament winners. But few commentators noted that she was missing among the living champions gathered for the extravaganza. Andre Agassi's supposed snub of the opening ceremony was much easier to headline. But Gibson's absence was heart-wrenching. The new stadium was named for a man who broke race barriers in the '60s and '70s. Althea Gibson broke race barriers in the '50s: she was the first black...
Desperate to avoid being frozen out, leading U.S. executives are taking matters into their own hands. "Most of the large hotel companies have already quietly established a relationship in Cuba or are at least working on doing so," says Michael Stein, a Miami-based lodging-industry consultant for Arthur Andersen...
...DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from...
...year ago, knowing he was dying, Arthur Liman told me he wanted to write about his life as a lawyer. He had a notion that he could inspire young lawyers to regard our profession as he did--a way to serve the public interest. Arthur was worried that publishers wanted something else--gossip, indiscretions, boasts. He knew so many important people, had handled so many famous cases, that such a book could have been a best seller. But he was steadfast. "I won't do a book like that," he would say. He was too loyal to his clients...
...shambly, unglamorous, sentimental, tolerant, fair and liberal. People thought he had a bad haircut, and he knew it: he once said he was the only person whose hair had been improved by chemotherapy. He could seem self-absorbed, but in fact he loved being a mentor. Two years ago, Arthur asked for my help in setting up an office to defend poor New Yorkers facing the death penalty, and I saw him at his finest, doing the civic lawyering he loved no less than his monumental dealmaking. Even as his illness advanced, the only thing that made...