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...article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...
...roughly, that they don't mean anything in particular. It's as though those who bet on him can't bear to face the possibility that his work was vacuous to begin with, so that the charade of admiring the acuteness of his "strategies" can keep going, despite the quasi-industrial repetitiousness with which he recycles his rather small idea...
...white stucco oceanfront mansion his father bought from Rodman Wanamaker in 1933. This year the weekend included a Good Friday night outing for the Senator, his son Patrick and nephew William Kennedy Smith at Au Bar, the club of the moment, where a mixture of old money, European quasi- royalty, young model-waitresses and the occasional male in a leather miniskirt boogie to loud music. Ted Kennedy sipped his usual, Chivas Scotch, until closing time at 3:30 a.m., when the three men returned to the Kennedy compound. Two women they had met at the bar joined them...
Nevertheless, serious work goes on here. The dead are required to examine their past in quasi-judicial proceedings, complete with judges, prosecutor and defense lawyer. The court can summon up on a screen any moment from the defendant's life to provide evidence about his nature...
...point. Punitive damages are intended as a form of quasi-criminal retribution against wrongdoers in civil cases. They exist to deter future misdeeds. "Punitive damages are not intended to compensate the victim," says Edward Cooper, a professor at the University of Michigan law school. "Instead, they are meant to punish especially bad conduct." Such judgments are most often awarded in product-liability and personal-injury cases...