updated: January 2, 2008
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"If you could have dinner or drinks with any famous person who is no longer alive, who would it be, and why?"

Tim Murphy – Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
"I'd like to have drinks with Winston Churchill.  First of all, he really enjoyed his liquor, so I would expect that he’d be in a good mood since he probably has not had a drink in a long time.  After he had enjoyed a couple of drinks, I’d like to get serious and ask him what he thought of Iraq, since he is credited with (or blamed for) creating that country."

Eric M. Labbe – Goodwin Procter LLP
"I would like to have drinks with Andre Dubus, a writer who lived in Massachusetts.  The father of Andre Dubus III (who wrote House of Sand and Fog and who also lives in Massachusetts), Andre Sr. was a well-known and celebrated writer of short stories.  He was an example to me growing up of someone who had great success pursuing his art in the unglamorous former factory towns of the Merrimack Valley.  His stories, which I recommend to everyone, combine a deep faith in God with the gritty, personal details of the successes and failures of human relationships.  While not sounding like the stuff of a fun night, his life growing up in the Deep South, in the military and then teaching here in the Northeast would make for an interesting evening."

Vivian Tseng – Welch's
"I would thoroughly enjoy sharing dinner and drinks with Winston Churchill, for his wit and mastery of the English language.  I can imagine the fun I would have dishing with him about other famous people, past and present."

 

 


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