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...about it. At this stage, there are two features of the American libel law which play together to produce a corrupt litigation situation...On the one side, one side has the ability to inquire into virtually the state of mind with which the article was written. The concept of actual malice has been played out this way, which means that a party in our litigation system has the ability to depocket the other side by exhaustively inquiring and putting the other side to the expense of depositions and so forth. It works just the other way around as well, because...
Nesson: I think the actual malice concept has got to be changed... To me the question in libel is not whether the statement was true as much as whether it was justified when it was printed...
Perhaps more noteworthy than the actual change--which affects about five students each decade--was the slight controversy that surrounded the proposal...
Still, the actual amount of the clandestine funds was not meant to be made public. Last week, however, the New York Times reported that Congress had approved the spending of $280 million to help the Afghan insurgents in the current fiscal year and that this was more than twice what was spent a year earlier. An intelligence source told TIME that the more precise level is $250 million. This is more than ten times the $24 million spent last year on the Nicaragua operation...
...week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...