Bhutto’s Death A Blow At Home And Abroad
CBS News - My aspiration and hope for democracy in Pakistan is no dewy-eyed Romanticism, a soft-hearted preference for rights or a lawyer’s predilection for the grand abstraction “rule of law.” Rather, in Pakistan’s democracy lies America’s best hope for

Wesley Morris’s Top 15
Boston Globe - class, middle-age-ish underachiever narcissism; and both Charles Ferguson’s “No End in Sight” and Barbet Schroeder’s “Terror’s Advocate,” two excellent documentary portraits of, respectively, the current Iraq war’s moral monstrosity and a lawyer who

Boots on the ground will settle the first real battle of a long war
Times Online - His outfit is partly a testament to a campaign in which the slick multi-millionaire Southern lawyer has reinvented himself as an angry populist who rails against Wall Street’s corporate greed, free trade, the Iraq war and Washington lobbyists.

The Debt Crisis, Where It’s Least Expected
New York Times - Richard Culley, a blind lawyer in Indianapolis, founded the Wish Fund in 1984; since then, it has granted 1,800 wishes to children ages 3 to 18. The fund has roughly $1 million in assets and is not affiliated with the national Make-A-Wish Foundation

Terror sympathiser David Hicks yet to see his children
News.com.au - FREED terrorism supporter David Hicks has not seen his two young children, with his family locked in a feud over the reunion after his release on Saturday. His lawyer, David McLeod, said his client feared the reunion would be filmed. Hick’s former

Questions we didn’t get to in 2007
MSNBC - themselves married — we’ve been surprised at how many people out there are unsure of their marital status. It seems to us like getting married is something you’d remember. But if you’re not sure, you should definitely check with a good lawyer