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...maze of sales charts and financial figures, Boeken?s team attacked the intentions of the tobacco giant, accusing it of a legacy of lies, deception and cold-hearted manipulation. The size of the award, say some legal analysts, is not reflective of a cut-and-dry concept of "fault," but rather of the public?s skepticism of the business of Big Tobacco...
...don’t want to continue punishing students for a situation that is not their fault,” Mansfield says. “I’ve had to adjust my grades upward over the years, and the strain on my conscience has become too great...
Then the ground buckled. Was it a one-man earthquake or an electoral aftershock? Having lost the popular vote and pulled the closest of victories from the rubble of Florida, Bush built his high-rise presidency dangerously close to the fault line. He governed as though he had a mandate, muscled his agenda through Congress by picking off a few conservative Democrats and ignoring the rest, and punished those who defied him. He could get away with it because all the lawmaking horsepower was in Republican control, and it seemed to be working for him--until Jeffords tore his high...
...idea what gas costs in Europe? Me neither, because my tightfisted editor wouldn't send me to Europe to find out. Also, they charge in liters there, and I still have no idea how much that is--which, much like the gas problem, may be Jimmy Carter's fault...
...things would be better. The view among most Israelis is that the weaker the closure the more likely it is that one of those guys will come in with a belt of explosives strapped around him. And there have been so many attacks recently that it's hard to fault that logic. The one on Friday got all the headlines, but there were half a dozen car bombs within Israel last week that were defused or didn't go off. And there's a real sense of depression. Not just the mood of the country, but people, individuals, are depressed...