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...wanted the story to last a little longer, though. I know it wasn't cheap for the state of Texas to bring us four days of entertainment, but it had to be a bargain compared with the $90 million Universal spent on Meet Joe Black. I see Nick Cage as Gurule and Courtney Love as LuAnn. My phone lines are open...
Technically, none of this is a defense to a murder charge. But jurors have long engaged in "jury nullification" in mercy killings, declining to convict even when the facts and law are damning. Still, juries are hard to predict. Last year a Louisiana man, David Rodriguez, rejected a plea bargain in the mercy killing of his Alzheimer's-ridden 90-year-old father. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Complicating matters for Kevorkian is that he seems intent on representing himself--a move his former attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, says could be disastrous...
...globe-trotting elite. In 1945 other airlines didn't think or act that way. Trippe decided to introduce a "tourist class" fare from New York to London. He cut the round-trip fare more than half, to $275 ($1,684 in today's dollars, which makes current pricing a bargain, right?). This went over like a lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didn't want to hear about the tourist class. Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats...
...consumer. One of Sony's first products was a transistor radio, produced in 1955. While the transistor was developed by Bell Labs and produced by Western Electric, it was Sony that first used it for a small pocket radio, in 1957, creating a new market in the bargain...
...Harvard costs students $100. "So the cost of a typical text is similar to--actually, a bit less than--a typical hour lecture," he says. "Where do you get more educational value? From the standpoint of students trying to get the best education for the dollar, textbooks are a bargain...