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...accosted last year by two men who in the past had threatened him over a gambling debt. Osby pulled out a .38- cal. pistol and shot the unarmed men to death. The case ended last month in a mistrial. Though 11 of the 12 jurors voted for conviction, the foreman opted for acquittal. He agreed with the argument that Osby shot Willie Brooks, 28, and Marcus Brooks, 19, in part because the environment in which all three men lived -- one of Fort Worth's most dangerous neighborhoods -- heightened Osby's fear...
...finding against the therapists, 10 to 2 (a unanimous vote was not required in the civil case), the jury awarded Ramona only $500,000 of the $8 million in damages he had sought. Still, he hailed the verdict as a "tremendous victory." Said jury foreman Thomas Dudum: "We felt that there was nothing done ((by the therapists)) that was malicious. It was more a case of negligence." The ruling does not answer the question of what happened to Holly Ramona. (No criminal charges have been filed against her father.) But it will almost certainly make recovered-memory therapists more cautious...
...Jeremy Irons) wakes up horny, saddles his horse and goes out to rape a peasant, you just know this isn't going to turn out to be an idle incident. A little later, when he is outraged at discovering his prepubescent daughter Blanca skinny-dipping with Pedro, his estancia foreman's son, you sense that moment too is going to have its consequences somewhere down the plot line. For from its opening frames, The House of the Spirits announces itself as one of those sagas in which there are no accidents, only portents of big-time ironies to come...
Murphy's troubles started in 1990, when he was fired from his job as a warehouse foreman in Kansas City, Missouri, for being sick too much. Suffering from what he thought was pneumonia, he got a chest X ray, which showed that his heart was greatly enlarged. He was told he would need a transplant and placed in intensive care...
...hard: unloading 200-lb. bolts of wrapped garments, hauling them upstairs and unpacking them. A documented worker might earn $13 an hour for such labor; Luis gets $5. "Even if we paid our legals three times as much, they still would not do this work," observes the job's foreman...