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Justice may not have been blind, but it was probably seeing double. Jurors in the District of Columbia superior court had been deliberating a day and a half in the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl when Foreman Robert Smoot sent a note to Judge Fred Ugast. A decision was impossible, wrote Smoot, unless two jurors were replaced. In a corner of the note Smoot penned, "Drinking problem...
...Bourgeois, 42, a Maryknoll priest, simply vanished. The initial assumption was that he had become yet another victim of the country's endemic political terrorism. "I'm as certain as I can be that he didn't disappear of his own free will," said his superior, Father James Noonan, when he arrived to look into the case...
...captain Chip Raffi, dressed entirely in white, snatched his team from the drooling jaws of defeat when his less-than-stellar 84 proved superior to Dartmouth's sixth-place...
...work. But when these various species of rich people all adopt a certain set of peculiar and expensive manners, customs and attire, a pattern emerges. If they can convince the rest of us that their peculiar whims constitute good taste, they succeed in creating the impression that they are superior. Giving status to preppy fashions sported by the rich helps legitimize their wealth, however they may have obtained...
...contributions of employees with M.B.A.s superior" to those without M.B.A.s; 40% believed them roughly equal; and 2% found the M.B.A.s inferior...