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That's a tricky distinction in the Jones case, in which just about everything is embarrassing to the President. In any normal lawsuit, right about now would be settlement time--when all the main parties have been deposed, and each side can assess the other's chance of persuading a jury. But in Jones v. Clinton, winning or losing may have nothing to do with what a jury decides and everything to do with how much pain each side can inflict on the other in public. Clinton would probably win the customary agreement that neither side divulge the details once...
...main reason the tobacco companies so badly want Congress to approve the $368 billion deal they cut last year with the states is that it offers them immunity against future lawsuits. And the main reason they want immunity is to save money. But they also want to save face. In every tobacco lawsuit, plaintiffs can demand and make public the industry's internal documents, even as a condition of cases settled out of court. Just how damaging those disclosures can be is plainer than ever since last week, when a California suit opened a flood of secret industry papers. What...
...main work he does as an actor," says Billy Bob Thornton, whose Sling Blade was partly inspired by Boo Radley, and who plays a pivotal cameo in The Apostle. "He observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
...main criticism with The Crimson has been [its] past insensitivity towards some events and issues," says Sergio J. Campos '00, president of Raza, a Mexican-American and Latino student organization...
Faludi emphasizes how alienated Reagan's popularity made her feel from main-stream America. "I didn't understand how it could have happened," she says...