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This was in Clayton, one of two seats (the other is Eufaula) of Barbour County, an ordinary little county that has become nationally recognized as tort hell. The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor. Now 59 but still thick as an antebellum column in the neck, Beasley has a reputation for taking the side of ordinary folk against big corporations and bringing them to their knees, lightening their pocketbooks by the millions. Now he smiled at the prospective jurors, 100 people or so; everybody knew...
...hours the defendants-accused of violating state laws by requiring borrowers to take out life insurance policies to cover the amounts of their loans-had folded and settled 45 cases out of court for $4.1 million. By Beasley standards they got off light: if it had gone to the Barbour County jury, God knows the size of the wheelbarrow they would have needed to haul away the verdict money...
...moved deliberately toward the center, and last Thursday night's speech was his most dramatic course correction yet. Clinton made several proposals last week similar to ones he criticized Bush for making when the patrician Texan was trying to save his presidency. The G.O.P. enjoyed the show. Said Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Party: "President Clinton shares with the hummingbird the amazing ability to turn 180 degrees in a wink...
...selection panel issued the decision today, authorizing negotiations with city officials to work out any kinks in staging the Aug. 12-15 event there. Even though nothing's final, the full Republican National Committee's vote is considered a formality because the Southern California city has RNC chairman Haley Barbour's enthusiastic backing. Gov. Pete Wilson, the state's top official and a potential presidential candidate, was a popular San Diego mayor.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
...Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee, called the Social Security tactic "the big lie." Conservative strategist William Kristol snapped that the fear mongering proved that Clinton was "brain dead" and "exactly what he once accused George Bush of being: an out-of-touch, visionless President with only a few questionable foreign policy accomplishments." At a minimum, Clinton's maneuvers will make it harder for either party to propose or accept cuts in spending and entitlements, which they both know is necessary in order to keep the deficit from ballooning again. At worst, the President's tactics were...