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...might not have trusted Thomas Cloyd to drive you to the mall, let alone fly you cross-country in a commercial airliner. In 1986 Cloyd was arrested in Texas for drunken driving. In 1998 he admitted to police that he had been drinking when he pushed his wife around, spat on her and verbally abused her, and in 2000 he was arrested for belligerently harassing his neighbors while soused. So it's a wonder that Cloyd, 44, an America West Airlines pilot, was ever allowed to climb into the captain's seat of an Airbus A319...
...That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That the Bronfman family is a cunning brood, who in selling Seagram to Messier managed the equivalent of selling a Mercedes...
...sister and played a tape Skakel made in the mid-'90s, when he was working on his autobiography. Both cast doubt on Skakel's alibi but without demolishing it. Classmates from a private school Skakel attended in Maine--really a glorified rehab clinic where Skakel was sent after a drunken-driving arrest--said he talked about the murder. The accounts ranged from helpless uncertainty--he was drunk, he blacked out, he couldn't remember what had happened--to dumb arrogance: "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy...
...speak up.) But his closing argument was a tour de force. Orchestrating a barrage of tapes, photographs and flashing transcripts, Benedict wove dozens of disparate facts into a simple scenario as chilling as any thriller: Skakel, jealous because Moxley flirted with Tommy, beat her to death in a drunken rage, masturbated over her body, then crept back to his bedroom...
...Estimated number of couches burned by drunken University of Colorado students in University Hill, a residential area in the college town of Boulder...