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Johnny, I hardly knew ye

After covering John Edwards -- and liking him -- for years, what I thought I knew about him was wrong. But reporters often misjudge candidates.
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  • Wednesday, August 13, 2008 08:42 PM

    to elephant man, on trial lawyers

    Trial lawyers who apply class action where the plaintiffs never even know they have been offended is one thing. Trials lawyers like Edwatds, or Mark Lanier, or other contingency lawyers who have put their own fortunes and lives on the line to recuperate damages done by powerful people, who believe in law in a way people like President Bush claerly doesn't, deerve our admiration, not contempt.

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