Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court of public opinion, as the Palm Beach rape case proved again last week, the rules can be merciless compared with those of a court of law. In the | public eye, a defendant may be judged guilty until proved innocent, all evidence is admissible, all tactics are acceptable. Perhaps with that in mind, the defense team for William Kennedy Smith continues to rake through his alleged victim's history in search of scandal. But last week the prosecution resurrected some ghosts from Willy's past -- ghosts who may yet come to haunt him even if they never have their...
...latest headlines erupted when prosecutor Moira Lasch disclosed that she had found three more women who would swear that William Kennedy Smith had attacked them. Even if their testimony is ruled inadmissible, the prosecutor has won an early tactical victory. "In a high-publicity case," observes West Palm Beach defense attorney Craig Boudreau, "what you say in court isn't necessarily what's going to win the case...
...silent. "There weren't any other witnesses, and I felt that it wouldn't be believed," says one, who is now a physician. Why not? "Because I know how powerful his family is, and he does seem to be such an upstanding student." But when they read about the Palm Beach case, they all reconsidered...
Woodrow Wirsig shudders to recall his wife Jane's gradual 10-year decline from Alzheimer's disease. At the low point, she was mute and immobile. But then in 1987, as part of an experimental program, she was put on the drug tacrine. "Within weeks," says Wirsig, of Palm City, Fla., "she could walk and talk and recognize me from 90 ft." Such stories have given tacrine a reputation as a Lazarus drug, the one medication that could recall to life loved ones who are losing control of their minds and bodies...
...natural restrictions, rolled up their sleeves and hacked or drilled the world of their dreams out of the wilderness. Something in the Western temperament strives mightily to deny that much of the region is a desert -- witness the tropical extravagance of Beverly Hills, the emerald golf courses of Palm Springs, the ubiquitous swimming pools throughout the West...