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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...
...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...
...unlikely matchup. But with Schlichtmann's cooperation, Harr has turned a sprawling, complex liability case into a suspenseful narrative full of intellectual surprises and bold-faced characters. Based on Harr's fly-on-the-wall reporting, A Civil Action (Random House; 500 pages; $25) chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia...
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...