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Besides, Leopold (Gerard Depardieu), the town drunk who also happens to be the town innkeeper, creates all the melodramatic hubbub their little community can tolerate -- or a good movie requires. A poet manque as well as a sometime black marketeer, he has the manners of a thug and the soul of a romantic. When he is falsely accused of harboring the collaborator (and briefly jailed), his outrage, hugely comic but strangely blackened around the edges, is marvelous to behold...
Prosecutors on July 22 disclosed they plan to call as witnesses three other women who claim Smith sexually attacked them. One, a former Georgetown University student, claims Smith raped her while she was drunk in 1988. The others said Smith stopped when they resisted...
...killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact that he was immediately whisked away in a private Lubavitcher ambulance while city emergency-service members worked to free the two Cato cousins pinned under...
...often, logic and good judgment are clouded by alcohol and drugs, so that disease prevention becomes far more difficult. "Most of the time I had sex with guys I was drunk," says a 23-year-old San Francisco woman who contracted HIV as a teenager. "I never thought a guy would care for me unless I slept with him. I was so uncomfortable with myself I had to be drunk...
These and similar actions are fertilized by new rules of comparative negligence that allow a plaintiff to recover damages in a lawsuit even if he is partly at fault; this means, for example, that a drunk driver who demolishes an illegally parked car can claim some damages from the defendant's insurer. Changes in ethical guidelines, moreover, permit attorneys to advertise for clients -- all of which has made the lawsuit business a battleground for greedy practitioners. The survey firm Jury Verdict Research estimates that jury awards to plaintiffs of $1 million or more leaped from...