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...ready to cave in, the tobacco giants call the agreement a lot of huffing and puffing and a desperate ploy by Liggett boss Bennett LeBow to cut his losses and possibly force another cigarette maker to buy him out. Liggett's deal is transferable to any acquiring tobacco company except Philip Morris. "The only ones who potentially benefit from LeBow's latest shenanigans are plaintiffs' lawyers," said a joint statement from the four major cigarette makers (Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard), who account for 98% of U.S. tobacco sales. Through the first nine months...
FORT MEYERS, Florida: It's been a bad couple of days for the bad guys. First, in an update of the old file-baked-in-a-cake ploy, Florida prisoner Gregory WIlliamson got out of jail when his girlfriend faxed a faked pardon to prison authorities. He was caught a week later when he couldn?t resist trying the same trick to spring his former cellmate. Apparently Williamson and his girlfriend were planning to go national: When they were arrested in her apartment, police found computers and disks containing official seals for state offices across the country. Meanwhile, Memphis teenager...
None of the Goldman family will speak the name O.J. Simpson. It is not a public relations ploy; in strategy sessions with the lawyers, Fred Goldman, who is adept with every legal and evidentiary detail of the case, always refers to Simpson as "the killer." Goldman was devastated by the criminal verdict. "I was numb; I was blown away. I had thought a hung jury was possible, but I had never imagined an acquittal. Our family recognized the need to be there for each other, and as difficult as another trial would be, we felt we had to do this...
...pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely withdraw from southern Lebanon, until it satisfies Syria with the Golan Heights.? Netanyahu's hard line on the Golan may be primarily a negotiating ploy. Israeli support for the continued presence in southern Lebanon has been waning, especially after last month's deadly helicopter accident killed 73 Israeli troops there. Having already established the principle that he would trade land for peace in completing the West Bank withdrawal agreement earlier this year, Netanyahu...
...pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely withdraw from southern Lebanon, until it satisfies Syria with the Golan Heights.? Netanyahu's hard line on the Golan may be primarily a negotiating ploy. Israeli support for the continued presence in southern Lebanon has been waning, especially after last month's deadly helicopter accident killed 73 Israeli troops there. Having already established the principle that he would trade land for peace in completing the West Bank withdrawal agreement earlier this year, Netanyahu...