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Instead of using the L.A. County coroners, the plaintiffs put Dr. Werner Spitz, a respected pathologist, on the stand. His testimony that the cuts on Simpson's left hand were caused by the struggle with Ron Goldman, who gouged Simpson with his fingernails, riveted jurors. (Spitz even offered to rake his nails across defense lawyer Robert Baker's skin to demonstrate. "We're not going to have any gouging of flesh out in my courtroom," Judge Fujisaki said.) Even without that dramatic flare-up, the cuts--or rather the assorted stories he has told about them--may prove problematic...
...lenders who target low-income families and try to trap them in a vicious cycle of debt," complains Congressman Joseph Kennedy, a member of the House Banking Committee, who has pushed successfully for legislation to limit mortgage interest and fees. "It's a strategy that allows them to rake in hefty profits off the misery of others...
...matchmaking is a higher form of gossip. As her vague father (James Cosmo) looks on, Emma schemes to convince gawky Harriet Smith (Toni Collette) that her destiny lies not with a simple farmer (Edward Woodall) but with the smarmy Rev. Elton (Alan Cumming). She also hopes to land handsome rake Frank Churchill (Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor) for herself. With other pretenders and poseurs intervening, it takes Emma the whole film to realize that she has been blind to the perfect match for herself: her brother-in-law, the kindly Mr. Knightly (Jeremy Northam...
This summer I didn't want to endure the hour commute to New York City, I had told myself in January. I could work in the yogurt place in town, at the local park district. I'd rake in some money and have time to hang out with friends. The job might even...
Among the benefits of bulking up, the deal will land Hilton on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where Bally owns two huge gaming palaces. Hilton has five casino hotels in Nevada but had been shut out of the lucrative Atlantic City market. The combined companies will rake in the chips at 15 casinos from Las Vegas to Istanbul, Turkey, and plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will...