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...intend to settle this lawsuit," one Philip Morris lawyer cried during the post-verdict press conference. "This is the result of an incredibly flawed procedure...
...This is a verdict in favor of no one," another PM attorney hissed. "It will have no practical impact on Philip Morris or its employees, because a final verdict won't be reached for 75 years...
...among the first to announce that the term "gracious losers" does not - and probably never will - apply to executives of Big Tobacco. The same goes for their legal counsel. Friday, when a Florida jury returned their $145 billion verdict against the country's largest cigarette manufacturers, attorneys for Philip Morris (which was ordered to pay more than $70 billion of the punitive damages) met the news with the same charm one might expect from an ill-tempered boa constrictor. Several were actually frothing at the mouth...
...mostly a mandate for Ike, not for the Republican way of life. Besides, before Eisenhower declared himself to be a Republican, the Democrats had hoped he would be their presidential candidate. If Ike had run as a Democrat and (inevitably) won, would that have been interpreted as a verdict for change...
...verdict: Whatever it is, it holds little promise for anyone. Caddell's scaled-down case has already irked the militia types - in conspiracy theory, there are no mistakes - and a guilty verdict will only whet their appetites further. Exoneration would do little to repair the Justice Department's damaged reputation. Afterward, the town of Waco will still be infamous, and wishing the Branch Davidians had picked someplace in Montana to make their stand. And no matter how hard Caddell and the Davidians try to turn a tragedy into a crime, the dead will still be dead, and men like David...