You’re in trouble. You want a lawyer. And not just any lawyer. You want a scary lawyer. Pick up the phone and call Bertram “Bert” Fields, who is known as “L.A.’s scariest lawyer.”
The National Marine Fisheries Service is weighing a request by a northwestern Indian tribe to hunt gray whales as part of its religious and cultural practices.
The last time the Makah tribe of Neah Bay, Wash., conducted a legal whale hunt was in 1999, and additional hunts have been held up since 2000 by lawsuits from environmental groups and government bureaucracy.
She had announced her departure several months ago.
By law, the commission can have only three members of one party. The other Democratic commissioner, Roel Campos, departed in September to head Cooley Godward’s Washington office.
Jerry Springer: The Opera had its New York debut last night, as part of a two-night only stint at Carnegie Hall.
The scaled-down production, billed as a concert, was a test to see if American audiences would embrace the controversial show. Although it had a successful run in London’s West End, when the BBC decided to air a TV version of the musical, Christian groups protested loudly.
In politics, enemies need to be watched. However, it’s friends who can really cause trouble.
Failed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani learned this the hard way. His one-time pal, Bernard Kerik, kept making the wrong kind of headlines, and Giuliani suffered a kind of guilt by association.
Sen. Barack Obama, a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, now finds himself in the same boat.
Two California groups, Vote Hope and PowerPac.org, are drawing national attention, and boisterous complaints from opponents, for their support of Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
Both are operating outside the Obama campaign as 527 organizations, taking advantage of tax-code provisions that exempt them from federal spending limits. And both were founded by Steve Phillips, former president of the San Francisco School Board and son-in-law of billionaire banker Herb Sandler.
Gates, 57, is a Harvard professor as well as an author and editor of a shelf-load of books. He’s also the host of African American Lives, a PBS series on genealogy that begins its second season next week.
The companies are likely to face Northrop Grumman as they compete for the program, which will cost tens of billions of dollars. The fleet of B-2 bombers, the most recent bomber program, cost the Pentagon at least $40 billion.
This time round, the chiefs of Detroit’s big three automakers arrived at the nation’s Capitol like supplicants - transported in hybrid cars, rather than private jets.
Freedom’s Watch, the political advocacy group once hailed as the conservative answer to MoveOn.org, may be the latest casualty of the economic downturn.
Some see President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to sit down for his first print interview with Ebony magazine as a symbolic nod to the readers of the historic black magazine.
Mark C. Pigott, 54, isn’t British, but the millionaire trucking industry executive who lives in Washington state has made it his mission to help English institutions flourish.
Susan E. Rice, named today by Barack Obama to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is only 44 years old, but it would seem she’s been preparing a lifetime for her new role.
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