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...cover had slipped off drains in other pools. In his summation Edwards used all his fabled powers of persuasion. (This was, after all, the guy who once addressed a jury in the imagined voice of an unborn child trying to alert her delivery-room doctor to problems with her birth.) "All 12 jurors kept their eyes on Edwards during his entire speech," recalls Judge Robert Farmer, now retired, who presided over the case. "When they came back with a verdict, eight or nine of them were crying." But the jurors composed themselves sufficiently to award $25 million to the Lakey...
...Franchise: it's Hollywood's magic word. For decades, the moguls groused because their products, unlike cars and potato chips, were not endlessly reproducible. The Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind and The Sound of Music were the up-to-their-time top grossers, but there was no Re-Birth, Re-Wind or Re-Sound. It took The Godfather, Part II, to make sequels chic. (An Oscar for Best Picture will do that.) In 1977, the opening crawl of Star Wars - announcing the film as "Episode IV: A New Hope" - stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels...
George W. Bush may have been shoved at birth into an impossible competition with a man he could never hope to surpass. He may have suffered in his father's shadow, protested that sharing his name was as much a curse as a blessing as he tried to make his way in the world. But people who grew up watching the Bush family recall a powerful bond among them. "His father was an inspiration," says childhood friend Randall Roden. "He played with us. He joked with us. The family had an impact on me. They were very lively, and they...
...feared attacks timed for the official date of June 30, U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer handed a blue folder to Prime Minister Allawi and with it sovereign responsibility for restoring Iraq to normality. Within an hour, Bremer was gone, his quick departure emblematic of Washington's exhausted efforts to birth a model nation...
...late 2002, Melbourne's Federation Square didn't so much give birth to a new art gallery and moving-image museum as spit them out from a computer. A labyrinth of splintered steel, sandstone and glass, with more detours than a PlayStation game, for many the $A450-million complex represented everything they disliked about contemporary culture: an amorphous mass of postmodernism, with no discernable beginning or end. Here was a building that seemed to suffer from eternal attention deficit disorder...