Word: recklessness
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Experts within the Government were initially doubtful, and many of them remain so. Technicians believe it unlikely that an impenetrable defense is feasible, and theoreticians question whether a nuclear-free world is even desirable. They point out that other countries, including some notably reckless ones in the Third World, could not be counted on to adhere to a nuclear-weapons ban sponsored by the superpowers. What is more, if the superpowers were released from the suicide pact of nuclear deterrence, they might be more likely to get into a conventional war. Since the knowledge of how to build nuclear weapons...
...Sioux certainly deserves that, if only as a tribute to reckless originality. A stranger tale and an odder telling would be hard to confect. Vincent Castleton, 43, an English banker in New Orleans, has married Marguerite Benoir, also known as Mim or Mimi to the handful of people on earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir...
...trial has been under way since October. In order to win the suit, Westmoreland, as a public figure, must prove that the network either knew what it said about him was false, or acted in "reckless disregard" of evidence indicating that it was false. Westmoreland's lawyers, who finished presenting their evidence in early January, tried to establish that CBS had selectively quoted from some interviews to make them sound more damning and edited out others that benefited his side. CBS, in almost five weeks of subsequent testimony, has attempted both to back up the substance of the documentary...
...forbidden access to the testimony that we were confident, confident, would prove that what that paragraph said was correct." After deciding the falsity issue, the jurors closeted themselves on Friday afternoon to discuss the matter of "actual malice": Had TIME published the paragraph knowing it was false or with reckless disregard--or entertaining serious doubts--about whether or not it was? Over the weekend they asked for 90 exhibits totaling more than 400 pages and loose-leaf binders to help them organize their thoughts...
Sofaer was expected to deliver his charge to the jurors early this week. If they decide not only that the paragraph defames Sharon but that TIME published the passage knowing it was false or with reckless disregard of the truth, then they will return to the courtroom to hear evidence on Sharon's reputation. The jury would then have to determine whether Sharon was harmed by publication of the paragraph and, if so, what damages should be awarded...