Word: suede
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SUED. CHRISTIAN SLATER, 25, prematurely raspy-voiced actor; for palimony; in Los Angeles. Nina Huang, who lived with the star of True Romance until earlier this month, maintains he promised to give her half his earnings during their time together.
Then there's that kid who sued his schoolsystem because he didn't get to be valedictorian.I think extreme hubris could be criminal.Protagonists of Greek tragedies were struck downon account of it all the time.
Brown was sued by members of women's gymnastics and volleyball teams when their funding was eliminated in 1991. The university argued in court that because its athletics program offers unusually wide opportunity to both male and female athletes (there are 16 men's and 17 women's varsity teams...
"Basically, we sued because we thought it wasintolerable to let this kind of irresponsiblejournalism go without a very strong response,"Suleiman says. "This journalist went beyond thelimit."
The case began when the women sued, obtaining apreliminary injunction reinstating the teams inDecember 1992. The injunction was affirmed by theU.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals the followingyear, pending the trial.