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...After an eight-month trial that hinged on notions like "predatory price discrimination" and "price-value submarkets," jurors had to rely on memory alone to recall testimony that filled 108 volumes. The judge's 81-page instructions gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation of Brown & Williamson's entry into black and white cigarettes was LIFO decrement avoidance tax benefits." No surprise -- the stymied jurors fell back on guesswork before awarding Liggett $49.6 million...
...writing to express our deep frustration and anger at this week's Fly Club vote. It is clear that with the choice to reject co-ed membership, members of the Fly Club have missed an ideal opportunity to alter the sexist traditions maintained by Harvard's all-male final clubs. It is not only the women of Harvard who have been disappointed, but also the Fly class of 1994, the majority of Fly alumni and some present members of the club...
Those students, fates will depend upon how serious an infraction each of the judges viewing the applications consider lateness to be, he said--some judges reject late applications outright...
CLINTON: "For three years we and other nations have worked exhaustively to find a diplomatic solution, only to have the dictators reject each...
...committee at the U.N. population conference overrode Vatican objections and adopted a controversial paragraph that endorses family planning and does not reject abortion. The paragraph is now part of the 20-year "Program of Action" for slowing the world's population growth, which will be voted on by the entire conference next Tuesday. Hot spots ahead: discussions on teen-age sex and contraception, slated for next week...