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Unless you’re for first class citizenship for women, you’re “in support of the subordination of women,” says the attorney.
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“I’m doing battle with some of the best and most highly paid attorneys in town, and often they’ll play dirty. It will be ugly. It will be vicious behind the […]
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“In many cases there is no justice; there’s just minimizing the injustice,” says the lawyer. Doing so to the tune of many millions of dollars can have an “educational impact,” […]
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Bringing a legal case against someone who is famous and powerful can be a “David and Goliath type of situation,” says the lawyer. But she’s “in the business of letting […]
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The attorney says that there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when and how to use the media to help a client in court. “Sometimes it’s like an educational moment or opportunity […]
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Women have made progress under the law—but not enough progress. And family law is rife with problems.
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Milton Berle helped Allred become the all-male club’s first female member. Soon afterwards, she walked into the steam room with a tape measure, singing Peggy Lee’s “Is that all there […]
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A conversation with the feminist attorney.
There was a time when you could reliably blame just about anything gone wrong from the weather to the size of your bank account on blacks or minorities and the […]
"The spread of digital technology comes at a cost: it exposes armies and societies to digital attack," says The Economist, which thinks cyberspace must be treated as a theater of war.
Spiegel follows the "Elvis of cultural studies" to a conference in Berlin where he presents his esoteric and eccentric ideas on the behavior of "late capitalism".
Two independent reports have exonerated the "Climategate" scientists, but you wouldn't know it to read the news. Salon.com takes on the wet-noodle, mainstream press.
"An aircraft fueled by the sun has accomplished its first ever manned night flight," reports the New Scientist. The Swiss aircraft broke several records for a piloted solar flight.
"We've plenty to protest about in the US, but on the streets there is no dissent. Why is our liberal mood so paralytic?" Clancy Sigel blames a host of culprits, including the Internet.
Government scientists have found natural HIV antibodies necessary for an AIDS vaccine, reports Scientific American, but stimulating their production in the body remains a hurdle.
"How does a defunct and discredited diplomatic process continue to masquerade as a success despite its utter failures?" An Al Jazeera analyst writes about the Middle East "peace process".
"By the end of next year, there's a good chance that Android devices will have displaced the iPhone in terms of sales." The Independent predicts closed-source programming will end Apple.
"The Gulf oil spill ranks as the nation's worst environmental disaster only if you ignore the great ongoing spill in the sky." The L.A. Times says air pollution gets a pass, but shouldn't.
Thinking of launching its own social network site, Google has criticized Facebook's "friend" function because it creates networks that don't respect the boundaries of real life.
Growing up, I spent many a rainy or wintry Saturday afternoon watching classic old horror films such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man or Dracula Vs. Frankenstein. It always seemed […]