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Hours after the verdict, Rosenblatt got an answer: Don't wait by the phone. The company made it clear it wasn't going to settle and dismissed him as a lawyer who was running scared. "He knows the case will not withstand scrutiny at the appellate level," company lawyer Little said...
...Still, sometimes that arrogance sounds awfully genuine - and reflexive. Said Philip Morris' Webb: "There's probably not a country in the world that can withstand a verdict this size...
...Here it's customary to mention that Dwight Eisenhower, asked to name his biggest mistake in office, replied, "I made two, and they're both sitting on the Supreme Court"--implying that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend to it. But that idea doesn't withstand scrutiny, says Harold Spaeth, a Michigan State professor who has spent 40 years demystifying the court. Ike's nominations of Earl Warren and William Brennan were political deals, designed to shore up his support in California and New Jersey and made without regard for ideology, "so it's no wonder...
Vicious competition dominated television last week. After ABC added an extra night of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to counter CBS's Survivor, Americans had to choose between watching real people withstand Regis Philbin's questions and watching real people withstand adverse conditions and 15 other disagreeable castaways. Add to that ESPN's broadcast of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, and the carnage of human ego was inescapable...
...also played a significant role outside of HLS. According to Heymann, he helped build the special prosecutor's office to withstand the political upheavals of the Watergate investigation. Vorenberg also served as a member of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...