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...Houston jury, however, was led to believe otherwise by Pennzoil's colorful lawyer, Joseph Jamail. A Lone Star folk hero who wears cowboy boots in court, Jamail may earn more than $2 billion in legal fees if the fine stands. A personal-liability specialist, he once won a $6.8 million settlement against Remington Arms, a gun company...
Returning to Paris, Maxwell took any dancing job she could find. From 1985 to 1988, she worked as a traveling circus clown and kick-line chorus girl for Cirque Magicville; she also choreographed and danced a gypsy solo with Danse de Roumanie, a traveling Romanian folk dance company...
...watched as the collective pressure of a wedding transforms normally reasonable folk into lunatics. But Chien-Chi Chang has taken that experience a step further?he's making art out of the insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried...
...inhabitants of Rampasasa insist their claimed genealogy is no tall tale. Indeed, among the rattan-and-thatch shacks of what otherwise seems an ordinary if very poor Flores village, it's hard not to notice the large number of very short people, particularly among the older folk, some of whom are the same height as a typical 10-year-old. Some six generations of intermarriage with outsiders, says Rampasasa's headman Alfredus Ontas, have left few truly tiny individuals. But to prove their antecedents, he and other locals eagerly display photos of recently deceased relatives whom they say were...
...subway stations to distribute pamphlets. Food was an afterthought?takeaway noodles or a steamed pork bun on the run. Hung's hours paid off. The rallies on July 1 in 2003 and '04 both drew a mix of half a million marchers?workers, professionals, businesspeople and just plain ordinary folk?vigorously protesting everything from China's interference in the territory to local government incompetence to the lack of free elections. This year, however, promises to be a relative washout. A dejected Hung expects only 50,000 to show up. "I thought the momentum couldn't be stopped, that this...