Actor and political activist Ron Silver, who played a recurring role in TV's presidential drama "The West Wing," and who also let his political views play out in real life, died Sunday after a two-year battle with esophageal cancer, according to a colleague.
After spending nearly 28 years in an irreversible coma, heiress and socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died Saturday in a New York nursing home, according to a family statement. She was 76.
CNN's Susan Candiotti reports on Sunny von Bulow's death after 28 years in a coma.
She was a debutante compared to Grace Kelly – but did her husband try to kill her?
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz on why Gov. Eliot Spitzer should hold on to power.
One of the consistent deformities in American policy debate has been challenged by a couple of professors, and the reaction proves their point so neatly it's almost funny.
Sam Waksal, the founder and former CEO of ImClone Systems who was jailed on an insider trading scandal that led to the imprisonment of his friend Martha Stewart, is trying to get out of prison early, according to media reports.
Before dawn Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an injunction request in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who had her feeding tube removed Friday.
Fortune: David Boiesupdated: Mon Mar 05 2001 00:01:00
Alan Dershowitz had Claus von Bulow, Johnnie Cochran had O.J., and, in the past two years Boies had three starmaking cases, fighting legal battles for Al Gore and Napster and against Microsoft. Jus...
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton By Christopher Hitchens Verso, 160 pages
In October 1993, when Northwest Airlines announced that it had agreed to rehire pilot Norman Prouse as a ground trainer, a company spokesman acknowledged that "some Northwest employees might be bit...
Fortune: DEN OF LAWYERSupdated: Mon Nov 18 1991 00:01:00
This is getting livelier than Clarence Darrow's courtroom battle with William Jennings Bryan in 1925's famous Scopes Monkey Trial. The fight between attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowi...
Fortune: BATTLING SMOKEupdated: Mon Jan 15 1990 00:01:00
Known as a ''lawyer of last resort,'' Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz has tried to put up the best defense for a Dickensian lineup of suspects: accused murderers, pornographers, terrorists, racis...
Fortune: Wall Street victimupdated: Mon May 11 1987 00:01:00
As federal prosecutors continue to cast their nets in Wall Street's scandal- ridden seas, some innocents may also get snared. Michael Singer, 38, a former vice president at Salomon Brothers, claims...
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