Word: leona
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Locked in a losing battle with embarrassing tabloid headlines -- New York's Daily News dubbed Perelman the king of mean, comparable to Leona Helmsley's queen of the same title -- Perelman's lawyer, Stanley Arkin, did his best to tarnish Tepperman's reputation. Outside the jury's presence, Arkin claimed that Tepperman, after admitting his wife to the Florida nursing home where she is still a resident, began living with Denese Galban, the nurse who once cared for her. Tepperman's lawyers do not dispute his involvement with Galban but insist that the relationship has the blessing of other family...
Never wildly popular, LEONA HELMSLEY has moved further up the list of ignoble Americans, following reports in the New York Daily News that she hasn't been doing her own community service. Helmsley, 74, allegedly had the domestic staff at her Arizona home stuff envelopes and wrap presents for volunteers at a local hospital. Helmsley was convicted of tax evasion in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, but still has to complete 250 hours of community service. Neither she nor the U.S. probation office would comment on the report...
...other Trump news: Harry and Leona Helmsley are suing the Donald for $100 million. The Helmsleys, who lease the Empire State Building from Trump and his Japanese partners, say a lawsuit that Trump filed in February claiming the Helmsleys had mismanaged the landmark (key phrase: "rodent infestation") was an attempt to drive down rental rates and scare off tenants...
...Leona D. Samson, professor of toxicology at the School of Public Health, said "valid numbers" attributing cancer to a particular substance could only be obtained by studying sufficiently large populations...
...either the DNA tests or the police discoveries at Simpson's house are admitted into evidence, Shapiro may have to rely on other strategies. Defense adviser Alan Dershowitz, the ubiquitous specialist in appeals (Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mike Tyson), suggested one possibility during an appearance on PBS's Charlie Rose Show. "Now you're going to see the defense brutally attacking these victims," he said. "By the end of this trial, nobody's going to have a kind thing to say about the two dead people." Last week Dershowitz insisted to TIME his words were "a general comment...