and when brendon sullivan came in to represent you, the room would crackle. it still crackles.when i walked into the ted stevens case, trial this year, you know, there's an electricity in the room that you're present with only of the great lawyers. -- with some of the great lawyers. as a reporter, i've been lucky to be able to be in trials with people like melvin belhi and william cunsler, and i was going to mention jim coleman who now is, i think, down at duke university when he represented ted bundy in the, some of his death penalty appeals. when you're in the presence of these great lawyers, it's really a spectacular feeling. you know, some of you may have heard -- i don't know if some of you are watching "boardwalk empire," anybody see the last episode where the arnold rothstein, the guy who fixed the 1919 world series, is preparing his legal defense, and one of the characters in the program says, arnold, you should be a lawyer. and he replies without sort of missing a beat, he says -- no, i'd rather continue to make my living honestly. [laughter] so, you know, there's a lo