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Case hired George Vradenburg, a high-powered lobbyist, to represent AOL on the Hill.
Both shows feature leggy professional babes with big, fabulous tresses (Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue as Amy in Judging Amy , Melina Kanakaredes as Syd Hansen in Providence ) who have thrown over high-powered careers (corporate law for Amy, plastic surgery for Syd) in fast-paced cities (New York, Los Angeles) for noble, self-sacrificing careers (family court judge, family doctor) in depressed Northeastern cities (Hartford, Providence), where they both move in with their families.
The WP trots out a quotation it got earlier in the year from the head of one of the investment firms where killings took place, in which he compares day-trading to firing a high-powered rifle: "If you use it right, you will be able to hunt effectively and bring down nice buck.
Basic premise: Dying from some unspecified form of cancer, the fetching Susan Allen (Nancy Travis) quits her high-powered law career and moves home to L.A. with her precocious 11-year-old daughter, Carson.
Clinton's gun move, says the NYT and LAT , could keep more than one million high-powered guns out of the U.S.