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Angry and vengeful, Pennzoil's Liedtke sued Texaco, and last week the oil giant paid a painful price for its successful maneuver. A Houston jury decided that Texaco had sabotaged Pennzoil's contract with Getty, and fined Texaco an awesome $10.5 billion. It was the largest sum ever awarded in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas-Size: Pennzoil wins $10.5 billion | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

I feel sympathy not for Dale Burr but for his victims. Many Americans experience financial disaster without going on a rampage of murderous retribution. Burr was not a victim of the current farmers' plight. He was homicidal and vengeful. The real tragedy is that Burr chose himself as his final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Even now, there are a handful of people, especially among Nixon loyalists convinced the President was wrongfully hounded from power by a vengeful press, who refuse to accept that Felt and Deep Throat are one and the same. "I thought Deep Throat was essentially a composite character" folding in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Watergate's Last Chapter | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

So—what did The Big Guy have to say for Himself? Unfortunately, not much. Like a vengeful Moses smashing the tablets, the Cambridge fire department doused the flames and cleared the smoke, leaving only the scattered detritus of a few dead plants.

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

Those attitudes, according to forensic psychiatrist Eric Goldsmith, are "the usual combination" for volunteers. Murderers can be astonishingly sensitive to criticism, and offering to die can be seen as an effective shield from the accusations of society or the pangs of conscience. Ross's public defenders have told him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Killer Wants to Die | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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