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...wistful constituency. As recently as last year, this was a fifth-place team behind the Boston Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins and Fluties. At least a modern Super Bowl record must have collapsed when, in contrast to the Chicago lottery, the Patriots were able to accommodate every season-ticket holder (count them, 7,500) with two ducats apiece for the big game. Twelve hundred and fifty people demurred...
...that now brings. In a videotaped statement she thanked Garza for his lifesaving gift and gratefully acknowledged the get-well wishes from everyone "who's been concerned about my transplant and how I'm doing." She and her parents now have some financial sorting out to do. At last count, no fewer than 28 writers and producers had lined up for the rights to her story...
...good lies in doing it, in using the mind to grasp everything the world can throw at it, baseballs to missiles, because that is how the mind protects the body, protects itself. Understanding is protection. More: understanding is forewarning. More: understanding is life. The individual column does not count, because a column is not supposed to exist alone. A columnist looks to erect a whole assembly of columns, each single effort standing patiently at attention after it is created, until eventually a population emerges, a civilization emerges. The civilization is both an accumulation of the columnist's ideas...
...want a PAC or high-priced fat cat speaking for me. I am the lobbyist who should count. I vote. George K. Bradley Birmingham, Mich. Doc in the Dock...
...Association of Trial Lawyers of America counters by arguing that the Jury Verdict Research figures on averages are distorted by a relatively small number of huge verdicts. In addition, they say, the figures count only the initial outcomes of trials that the plaintiffs won. If defendant victories, out-of-court settlements and verdicts reduced on appeal were factored in, say the lawyers, even the average level of awards would be much lower. ATLA asserts that more than two-thirds of the million-dollar awards compensate victims or relatives for genuinely serious injuries, such as death or permanent paralysis, reflecting...