Word: marches
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Still, 1999 is shaping up to be Big Tobacco's worst year in court. Even before the loss in Florida, a California court awarded $26.5 million to a lung-cancer victim in February, and an Oregon court awarded $32.8 million to another cancer victim in March. The latest cases suggest the public may no longer be buying the industry's defenses. When a tobacco executive at the Florida trial tried to deny that cigarettes are harmful, one juror could be seen rolling her eyes. A legal system that for decades favored the cigarette companies may be kicking the habit...
...that this strange enthusiasm goes unappreciated by the gaping public. Kappfjell, New Yorkers may recall, accomplished the sport's trifecta by jumping off the Empire State and Chrysler buildings last October, and he achieved a personal high last March when he jumped 110 floors from the top of the World Trade Center. (The unlawful leap irritated New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and for that alone was deemed worthwhile by the citizens.) People seem to take pleasure in BASE jumping in the same way, I suppose, that Romans liked watching gladiators. The potential opportunity to observe a fellow human...
STANLEY KUBRICK died in March, days after finishing his controversial film Eyes Wide Shut. But that may not be the last moviegoers see of his work. Warner Bros. owns the rights to AI, a science-fiction flick Kubrick wanted to do about artificial intelligence. Warner co-chief TERRY SEMEL says there is a script and even storyboards completed for the movie. Normally, Kubrick never did storyboards--he preferred to let movies develop over a long period--but he had to do them for AI, which mixes computer-generated figures with human actors. As with all things Kubrickian, the story line...
...confidence that the worst is over and business will pick up further. But it may be too early to declare victory. "What is really happening," says TIME business senior editor Bill Saporito, "is that the Asian economies are coming off the bottom. Even when you do nothing, the inevitable march of business can pull...
...begins back in about March of the school year," he said, explaining the application process for directors. Thirteen students applied to direct this year, each proposing the show they wanted to stage...