Mrs. Hartwell does not see it that way; According to her, greed is the real problem, a clear refusal to consider making less. “Courage is clearly difficult,” she said. Serene and Attent in her presentation, her resistance method does not include rhyming songs, drums or screams. An upper West Luns that knits the hat that she wears on cold days, she cannot be traceable to what cliché could follow from it. Until recently she had never protested much.
The whole of her career was in fact spent in Elite -right circles, first as a partner at Covington & Burling, another prominent company, and one that has opposed the raids of the Trump government. She has been working from the London office of Covington for ten years and advised American business customers on international tax strategy. “I like tax legislation,” she told me, not Facetious, one morning after 90 minutes in Sixth Avenue. After her time in Covington, she went to work for GE Capital, the commercial credit operation of the conglomerate, to run his tax department.
At that time she had moved her family to Greenwich, Conn., Where she sent her children to the private school. She had a big house that looked like a castle, with a swimming pool. In other words, she is not getting dirty or having a lot of money. She grew up without-in Mitchell-Lama homes in Manhattan and attending the Brearley School About a fair. Her parents came to this country in the mid -1950s from Serbia, where her father had struggled as an architect. In America, her mother quickly found work as a secretary at The New Yorker.
Mrs. Hartwell had always admired Paul Weiss. Under his center to combat hatred, the company has successfully sued white supremacist groups in a series of high -profile matters. Her reaction to the strong armament of the government considered her an inconsistent and demoralizing.
“When Paul Weiss allowed the government’s threats, I thought I almost immediately dealt with a plate,” she told me. She realized, she said, that people “have so many reasons why they don’t want to stand with a sign on a street corner.”
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