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Barr reminded the jurors that Sharon's lawyers must prove "actual malice," that is, that TIME published the paragraph knowing it to be false, or with reckless disregard for whether it was false. He insisted that staff members had worked on the story in good faith. Halevy had several sources for his account of Sharon's talks with the Phalangists, the lawyer argued. After reading the Kahan report, "he believed those sources were correct." As for the other TIME journalists who relied on Halevy's reporting, Barr said, they had read the Kahan report and trusted Halevy completely...
...public even knew his name. He was dubbed the Subway Shooter, the Death Wish Vigilante. Like a scene from a Charles Bronson movie suddenly splashed into tabloid surreality, his violent act unleashed a torrent of conflicting emotions among those who cast him as either an urban hero or a reckless vigilante. While there was no evidence that the young men had actually attacked Goetz, all had criminal records and three were carrying concealed sharpened screwdrivers that could have been used as weapons. A police hot line set up to collect clues to the fugitive gunman's identity and whereabouts...
...recent election, Bork continued, "many cruel and damaging things were said," some of which "may well meet the law's standards for actual malice --reckless disregard for the truth." But "we would be astonished and highly disapproving if the defamed candidate brought an action for libel...
...made the sweeping ouster at Continental partly to remind bank directors across the U.S. of their supervisory responsibilities. The FDIC dismissed all the directors elected to Continental's board before 1980 because it was during the late 1970s that the bank made most of the $3 billion in reckless loans that led to its near collapse. The agency contends that the directors should have monitored more carefully what was going on at Continental. Ideally, corporate directors are wise and prudent overseers of an institution's full-time staff. But many of the country's 15,000 banks...
...best of reasons in American history, that you have stated--the kind of country we are--should not be stamped out with something to be judicially delineated. We don't want to do that. Sometime's it's the outsider, it's the Tom Paine, it's the, quote, reckless, irresponsible character who does great things. We don't want to be judged by the standards of The New York Times...