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That's how in 1995 Ronald Huber became one faceless plaintiff among 5,000 class members--"They viewed their clients as mere inventory," the 2002 complaint says of its defendants. These mass tort cases typically involve dozens or even hundreds of corporate defendants and thousands of plaintiffs. There could be a core of wrenching cancer cases, but many of the plaintiffs are healthy people who could prove that they had been exposed to asbestos. Publicity about the evils of big corporations and asbestos cover-ups helped make for plaintiff-friendly juries, especially in states such as Texas and Mississippi, where...
...East German judges who used to fight the Cold War from high above the Olympic ice. But she is the face of the scandal that's ending the week as everyone's top story. Suddenly all of figure skating smells rotten, and the sport's all-powerful judges are faceless no more...
...Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with a proposal teeming with 21st century buzzwords. Their brainchild would be a "living laboratory of contemporary art," a "non-defined space in which different projects could cross-fertilize one another," a "tool in which the visual arts played the role of a search engine...
...JORMA OLLILA Not since the sauna have the Finns produced anything as popular as the NOKIA mobile phone. That's mostly thanks to the charming, bookish CEO, who holds master's degrees in economics, engineering and politics. Ollila, 51, has transformed the 136-year-old firm from a faceless conglomerate to a tech wunderkind. He is now leading an industry-wide movement to create an open standard for Internet services delivered by wireless phones...
...Throughout the show, the entire ensemble wears black while Tommy is in white. In the first act, this successfully highlights Tommy as an oppressed figure swallowed up by the black-clothed masses while, in the second act, it reveals him as a unique figure followed and emulated by a faceless, mindless and identity-less mob. Additionally, some characters change the color of their costumes for certain scenes, exposing a change in their character or personality that may otherwise have gone unnoticed...