For J Street defenders, the vitriol is a sign that the group is beginning to have an impact.
DealBook » Spitzer As Wall Street's Defender | In a conversation about the Occupy Wall Street protests, Eliot Spitzer mounted a qualified defense of the industry he policed as New York's attorney general — but also offered the protesters some potential talking points.
Despite his ties to old Wall Street, his defenders say he deserves more credit for innovation than has generally been acknowledged, especially in keeping Prudential technologically competitive with bigger firms.
When you finally do tire of the street artist defenders crying about the First Amendment, just bring up the Fifth Amendment.
Renee Montoya is a cop who took on the mantle of the Question in 2007 to become a private eye a great counterpart to Marvel's "street-level" Defenders.
Each of Iraq's cities seems to go through the same cycle: bombing, flight by refugees, a coalition assault, street fighting, the defenders' collapse, celebrations, looting, the tumbling of statues, food shortages and revenge killings.
Immediately following his election as an interim president of his country, Moncef Marzouki, who was known to the Arab street as a tough defender of liberties and human rights and a formidable foe of the Ben Ali regime, stood to offer a balanced and clear vision for the future of Tunisia.
Actually, before I get to that, let me take a moment to debunk a fairy tale that we've been hearing a lot from Wall Street and its reliable defenders — a tale in which the incredible damage runaway finance inflicted on the U.S. economy gets flushed down the memory hole, and financiers instead become the heroes who saved America.
Her résumé in the past decade has understandably alarmed advocates of financial reform, who fear that her work as a defender of Wall Street means that she is dangerously biased in favor of the banks and their deregulatory agenda.
From her early days as a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War to her coverage, at the age of eighty-five, of murdered Brazilian street children, Martha Gellhorn was a defender of the underdog.
