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That's where the trouble started. Sexual-harassment suits have a tendency to spiral out of control because the relaxed rules of civil discovery permit lawyers for the plaintiff to rummage freely through the defendant's sexual history, to try to prove a pattern of "unwanted advances." In criminal trials involving serious sexual allegations, such as rape, inquiries into the sexual history of the alleged victim and the defendant are more carefully limited...
...MONDAY Wendel ("Bullet Man") Suckow will try to win the U.S.'s first ever luge medal. Though he hasn't had a great season, he did win the World Cup event on Nagano's Spiral...
Arguably the most significant achievements of the '60s were the victories of the civil rights movement. Yet today race relations are in an abysmal state. Lyndon Johnson championed the Great Society. Thirty years later, we're still trying to sort out the welfare system while our inner cities spiral into decay. As for the Vietnam War, student activism helped bring about an end to that. But that activism also entrenched a vitriolic suspicion of patriotism that still pervades college campuses across the country...
...that he had a brief window of opportunity with no room for false steps. Just to be sure, one participant in the dinner, Treasury official David Lipton, was dispatched to Seoul two days later to measure Kim's intentions and help negotiate a deal. "To allow the situation to spiral out of control," Summers said later, "wouldn't be responsible...
Farley's final months were a rapidly accelerating death spiral. During the making of the as yet unreleased Almost Heroes with Matthew Perry, says producer Denise Di Novi, Farley "had to attend A.A. meetings every day. He was always trying, but with Chris it wasn't that he had just one problem. It was a constant daily battle, fighting his demons." By the time Farley was providing the voice for the title character in Shrek, an animated film from DreamWorks, studio partner Jeffrey Katzenberg was taking no chances. He put the comic under 24-hour bodyguard during recording to make...