Recently quoted in The New Yorker:

[Detroit] Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has named former mayoral challenger and City Councilwoman Sharon Mc Phail, who once accused him of rigging her massage chair to electrocute her, to the newly created position of general counsel for the mayor’s office.

Proving that lawyers may be able to take strong positions without anybody taking it personally.

The New Yorker, April 10, 2006, p. 82 (quoting a report in the Detroit News).