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Insurers and some of their customers blame aggressive lawyers, inventive judges and soft-hearted juries for twisting legal concepts of negligence into novel shapes to justify excessive damage awards to people who claim personal injury (a tort in legal parlance). Avaricious lawyers, they argue, seek outrageously high damages for clients...
All the ingredients were here for a B-Western version of the saga of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Cyra's first home was the midnight blue 1937 Packard that carried her parents from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion...
Despite widespread opposition to the U.S. strike, a silent minority of Europeans approved. Former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing spoke for them when he recalled how he sent French paratroops to quell an insurgency in Zaïre in 1978. On that occasion, he noted gratefully, "our forces were...
It was a triumphal return. Not since those earlier expatriates Composer Igor Stravinsky and Choreographer George Balanchine visited in 1962 has the Soviet Union been so galvanized by a glimpse of a prodigal son. Keenly anticipated for weeks by Soviet music lovers, Horowitz's tour featured just two formal concerts...
The recital was televised the same day across Europe and the U.S. and was recorded for possible later broadcast by Soviet television as well. But TV could only begin to suggest what the 1,800 foreign diplomats, Soviet film stars, composers, musicians and ordinary Russians witnessed on an extraordinary afternoon...