Word: victors
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...Vice President's proposals, such as a societal emphasis on mediation over litigation, can be embraced by everyone other than the most self-protective attorney. Others are intriguing, such as his advocacy of the English system, in which the loser in a civil suit is required to pay the victor's legal bills...
...hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt, 18, a waiter and part-time mushroomer. Morel hunters in the Land of the Midnight Sun have an edge. "It doesn't get dark, so people are picking all night," notes Victor Marteddu of Vancouver, who bought up 1,800 lbs. of morels in just three days...
Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) is poor but healthy, uneducated but full of spunky common sense. Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) is rich but mortally ill, overeducated and understandably fearful and withdrawn. In other words, they are made for each other...
...past year of Roberts' professional history certainly has. For she has become the designated heroine of our redemptive fairy tales. Having taught a workaholic conglomerateur how to love in Pretty Woman and herself how to overcome the battered-wife syndrome in Sleeping with the Enemy, surely she can help Victor come to grips with the sadness of Dying Young...
...trouble with this story is its predictability. Act I: boy and girl meet querulously. Act II: they love rapturously, and that sends Victor's leukemia into remission. Act III: illness returns, love falters, but everyone eventually learns to face an unknowable future with a certain fortitude...