Word: harr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case garnered national attention following its release as a best-selling book by Jonathan Harr and later as a major motion picture, starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall and Kathleen Quinlan...
...Harr spoke about the unique opportunity he had in writing "A Civil Action." "I knew journalists rarely got access to this kind of case," he said. "I am not an environmentalist or a zealot about causes...I had no agenda, so that really helped me get access to witnesses...
...always nice, at the holiday season, to see a man get religion. It's especially rewarding to see him do so in a smart, tough, yet curiously moving film like A Civil Action, which is based on Jonathan Harr's true, best-selling account of how an insanely complicated Massachusetts case involving deadly environmental pollution was endlessly litigated...
...gown-clad girlfriend just five minutes before the Radcliffe Senior Soiree. He was still in his jeans, his gaze locked on the screen during an intense game of Mario Kart. Although he lost that game, their relationship somehow survived. Perhaps women just can't resist them--Anna M. Harr '99 claims that "Nintendo boys are the sexiest boys in the world...
Insiders routinely described the case as a "black hole." Harr was told he would be "digging quarters out of car seats" before he finished being Schlichtmann's Boswell. Jerome Facher, Beatrice's attorney and a Harvard Law School instructor, offered an equally dire assessment. "The truth," he said, "is at the bottom of a bottomless...