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During the trial, Edwards discovered through cross-examination that the manufacturer of the pool's drain cover had failed to inform the court of a host of other injuries and deaths that resulted when the cover had slipped off drains in other pools. In his summation Edwards used all his fabled powers of persuasion. (This was, after all, the guy who once addressed a jury in the imagined voice of an unborn child trying to alert her delivery-room doctor to problems with her birth.) "All 12 jurors kept their eyes on Edwards during his entire speech," recalls Judge Robert...
...fault of his own. That's when he decides he'll win his job back (and simultaneously declare his affection for Zahir) by releasing a computer virus bearing her image. Like a pyromaniac who starts fires so he can be the hero who reports them, Mehta plans to inform his company how to stop the virus before things get out of hand. But his scheme goes seriously awry, to the discomfort of practically everyone on earth...
When he discovered that his former pupil was vying for the presidency in 2000, Tsurumi said he tried to inform the public about his experience with the then-Texas governor at HBS—but got few results beyond hate mail...
...Diaz tricked her into cooperating by saying she was merely working on a master's thesis at Stanford University's film school. Marcos has also complained that, after their initial contact a decade ago, "I never heard from [Diaz] again until a few months ago, when she called to inform me that her film Imelda will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival." Diaz says she first interviewed Marcos in 1993 for a thesis on the history of Philippine women, then contacted her a few years later to propose a documentary about her life and flew with a professional film...
Although he had already taken the opportunity to inform Welch, Mazzoleni notified the team of his decision via e-mail the morning of the 16th, and the Gamblers announced the hiring at an afternoon press conference within hours of the announcement of his resignation...