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...considering a national tort-reform law aimed at restricting frivolous litigation. There is surely something new in the American air that inspired the estate of Christopher Duffy of Framingham, Mass., who stole a car from a parking lot and got killed in a subsequent accident, to sue the proprietor of the lot for failing to prevent auto thefts. The same ingredient in the Zeitgeist must have affected the Philadelphia jury described by journalist Walter Olson in a new book, The Litigation Explosion. The jury awarded $986,000 in 1986 to Judith Haimes, a psychic who was said...
...metropolises fascinate each other, and none chart the differences more minutely than the hardy group of a dozen or so restaurateurs who operate establishments in both Los Angeles and New York City. "Menus are different, taste buds are different on the two coasts," observes Adam Tihany, a proprietor of the Italian bistro Remi, which serves in midtown Manhattan and Santa Monica. Almost any other method of expansion would be simpler. But some people bitten by the restaurant bug just cannot resist trying to conquer the two towns...
...Duchess defies all rules of decorum to seduce the current proprietor of her household, the charming Antonio Bologna (Cullen Gerst). But her protective brothers, the Cardinal of Ancona (David Gammons), and Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria (Sean Gullette), are alert to the Duchess' behavior. They assign Bosola (Suzanne Rose), a soldier of fortune, to spy on the Duchess' activities. In the end, each participant in this affair pays the highest price for their deceitful lifestyle...
...neighborhood grocery store when she learned that its owner was about to retire. Something fell into place. She looked around the old-fashioned shop, where clerks still climb ladders to retrieve goods from the upper shelves, and she decided on the spot to buy the place. The new proprietor of the Crocus Hill market may never come anywhere near to matching her old $100,000-plus yearly income, but she couldn't care less. Says Glance: "It really comes down to saying, 'Slow down. The value of life might not be in making money...
...little more success at my next stop: Billy's Stationery, just around the corner. After a brief conversation, the proprietor, one Billy Oh, told me that sure, he recognized the man in the picture. Rudenstine, he said, bought The Times every day at around 8 in the morning...