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Some legal experts not connected with the case thought that Judge Sofaer's complex definition of malice represented a departure from precedent. "It is contrary to established law to equate exaggeration with substantial factual falsity," observed Richard Winfield, a publishing specialist in the Manhattan firm of Rogers & Wells. Said Henry Kaufman, general counsel for the Libel Defense Resource Center, a New York-based media group: "It's a Rube Goldberg kind of charge. I'm concerned, in the context of this case, that jurors will turn the concept of material exaggeration or distortion around to secondguess editorial judgment...
...Mattingly of the New York Yankees, the AL batting champion, finished fifth with 113 points, followed by Detroit's Kirk Gibson with 96, Tony Armas of Boston with 87' and the Yankees' Dave Winfield with...
First: I' faith, methinks I spied Master Garvey among the groundlings to see Paul Winfield play the tragical Moor in Othello on the very eve that the Padres clinchethed the westernmost division of the National League...
...film reflects life, it can also help shape it. Actor Paul Winfield (Sounder, White Dog) recalls growing up in Seattle in the 1940s. "All the blacks would sit in the movie theater balcony," he says. "Nigger heaven, they used to call it. Then one night we saw Stanley Kramer's Home of the Brave, the first picture we'd seen in which a black was not a Stepin Fetchit, and we resolved never to sit in the balcony again...
...summiteering began in earnest upon Reagan's return to London from Wednesday's Normandy ceremonies. Thursday morning, the President held a series of 35-minute bilateral meetings at Winfield House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence, with his other major summit partners. The meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone included a general discussion of cooperation in the event of a Persian Gulf oil crisis. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, the two leaders agreed that "some type of sharing, some type of contingency planning" should ensue. After the meet Regan declared that U.S. interest rates were...