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After Casolaro's family raised questions, West Virginia authorities performed an autopsy, which found no signs on his body of a physical struggle. But because the body had been embalmed, pathologists may have had difficulty detecting any foreign substances in Casolaro's blood. "We're not ruling out foul play," said Dr. James Frost, deputy medical examiner, "but I have no evidence of it at this time." Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, now an attorney for Inslaw, called last week for a federal probe of Casolaro's death. Perhaps nothing less will put to rest the questions that surround...
That happened in 1987, and the tide of petty American litigiousness has kept on rising to new, absurd heights. This is the age of the self-tort crybaby, to whom some disappointment -- a slur, the loss of a job, an errant spouse, a foul-tasting can of beer, a slip on the supermarket floor, an unbecoming face- lift -- is sufficient occasion to claim huge monetary awards...
Corked bats. Rampaging fans. Wife swapping. Not the sort of stuff that's found on baseball TRADING CARDS -- until now. The new Foul Ball series features some of baseball's most inglorious moments. Among them: slugger Norm Cash's confession that he used doctored bats, the nights on which beer-addled fans in Cleveland and Chicago forced forfeits, and the time when two Yankee pitchers swapped their wives, children and even family dogs...
...Saddam City have taken to foraging alongside dogs and sheep, searching for food in the mounting piles of garbage that line every street. There has been no refuse pickup in the neighborhood in five months. Nor is there clean water. Sewage has backed up into the streets in greenish, foul-smelling pools...
...much about the nature of academic protests--and protesters--these days. Inspired by their nostalgia for the 1960s, militants jump at the chance to demonstrate and disrupt, no matter how flimsy or ill-conceived the cause. But when challenged to defend their actions either legally or intellectually, they cry foul and rush to the protective cover of their empty rhetoric and "victim" status...