Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth in this paragraph consists in the fact that in a literal sense such a poster did exist. It announced the first meeting of the spring semester and was intended merely to be eye-catching and humorous. In light of the apparent willingness of certain segments of the Harvard community to exploit any potentially suggestive statements made by the GLSA in order to denigrate the gay community, such a poster was perhaps unwise. In is distressing, however, to feel the need to take such idiocy seriously, but it is more distressing, and also frightening, to know that there are Harvard...
...general litigious impulse in our society, or to the publicity given to strikingly high jury damage awards. In part, the press has itself to blame: the multimillion-dollar awards in recent cases have commanded headlines, but the reversals or drastic reductions in damages typically have rated a paragraph back among the want...
Sharon's lawsuit was aimed at the 22nd paragraph in TIME's eight-page story. The passage described a sympathy call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after Bashir's death and said that details about the visit were contained in a classified Appendix B to the report. The paragraph went on to say: "Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving ; into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge...
...reaching their verdict, the jurors said that TIME's mistaken report that the information was actually part of Appendix B "aggravated" the defamatory interpretation they read into the disputed paragraph. But the judge had agreed with TIME on this point and had told the jury that the alleged libel did not center on the content of the appendix but rather on the substance of what TIME's paragraph said--namely, that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists before they were sent into the camps...
...stations later, several of the jurors explained how the deliberations had gone. Lydia Burdick, 35, said they decided the passage had a defamatory meaning because it "went far beyond" the Kahan report. Patricia De Loatch, 27, a marketing specialist for AT&T, said she concluded that the TIME paragraph was false because the magazine had not offered evidence to back up its claim. "I felt he (Sharon) knew there would be a massacre," she told the Wall Street Journal. "I wanted to believe what TIME said. But there just wasn't any proof." (Under...