Word: legality
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...Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions to the party. A big liability for Wulff is that he is the C.D.U.'s party leader in Lower Saxony, home of the current Chancellor, Gerhard Schroder. In the last election in Lower...
Furthermore, Koocher said there is a "serious legal question" whether any member of the city council--besides an elected mayor--has the right to sit on the School Committee...
...thing I'd like to do is sled down the steps of Widener, but I'm not sure how legal that is," Sancton added...
...working only with A-list talent. In the recording studio, SEAN ("PUFFY") COMBS has produced tracks for Madonna, Mariah Carey and girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. In the Hamptons, he sips Cristal with Martha Stewart and Calvin Klein. So why should he have anything but the best when it comes to legal representation? In anticipation of a weapons-felony indictment last week, Combs signed up attorneys Benjamin Brafman--who represented Mob turncoat Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano--and JOHNNIE COCHRAN (you may remember his work with a certain former football player). "There should not be a rush to judgment," said Brafman after...
...reserves his greatest scorn for Kenneth Starr, whom he portrays as unqualified, unprincipled, politically biased and lacking in common sense. Toobin's thesis is that the real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That may be true, but the fuller explanation lies in Toobin's damning portrait of Starr. There was no need, the book suggests, for a conspiracy to throw the republic off course. One recklessly unrestrained special prosecutor...