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Engle v. R.J. Reynolds et al. won't go on forever, as defense lawyers promise. It couldn't possibly last more than 75 years. Tops...
...smokers. The jury (who, in the judge's words, "will all be forgiven if they never want to serve on a jury again") had already decided the companies create a "defective and dangerous" product, and awarded $12.7 million in compensatory damages to three sick smokers. And Philip Morris, Liggett, et al. would have been more than happy to see the case end there. Unfortunately for them, there are a lot of sick and dying smokers out there, and the majority of Americans are not particularly sympathetic to cries of distress from fat cat CEOs who make a living selling...
...move to Cairo, where, some years ago, I saw that the owners of shoe stores had arranged rows of chairs on sidewalks outside their shops so that customers could come in the evenings to sit and stare through the windows - as if the shoes were a performance, a son et lumiere. My search for the perfect shoe has made me an inadvertent expert - a horrified expert - on shoe developments. I have noticed, as you may have, that in recent years the designs of men's and women's shoes have grown both comic and hideous. What accounts for this? Shoes...
Happily for today's graduates, disputations in Latin on theses philologicae et philosophicae, including propositions by Aristotle and Duns Scotus, is no longer a requirement at Commencement...
...annoying with her twice-a-day e-mails from home (good morning tatella, and good night tatella), and my dad never listens to me when I'm sick (he's a doctor). But through ups and downs, I've been fortunate enough to have them, plus my sister, grandparents, et al., to help me whenever help was needed. And that is them you will hear on Thursday afternoon, howling the loudest catcall in the Quincy House courtyard as my name is called...