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...allies believe Wigand is just the man to bring a jury into tobacco's inner sanctum. "Wigand can personalize the story and give...firsthand evidence...as to how the industry was conducting its business and what its motivations were," says Scott Ballin of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, which includes the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. "The efforts that they are going through to discredit him are directly proportional to the damage they know his testimony can do," says Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi lawyer who is shepherding Wigand through the courts...
Some may think that I, as a northerner, am criticizing the South too harshly. But I know firsthand of the perversity of this region--I've traveled through it a bit, and I lived a stone's throw below the Mason-Dixon line for several years...
...explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
...attorney who has represented mothers, children and the state in protective proceedings, I know all too well that there are no easy solutions to the problem of child abuse. I have witnessed firsthand the drawbacks of overzealous protection of children. Separating a child from a parent can have a devastating effect upon both parent and child. Until we are certain that a parent presents a true danger to a child, we must continue to promote the preservation of the family. When a child like Elisa falls through the cracks, we should be careful to place the blame where...
...United Nations warned that a severe food shortage in North Korea this winter endangers more than 10% of the country's 23 million people, based on firsthand observations made by U.N. workers in December. Pyongyang's strict system of food rationing has been further tightened to cope with an expected shortfall of more than 3.5 million tons of grain...