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...this season. No U.S. skier will place in the downhill without supernatural intervention, but any one of several Austrians could reverse that team's unaccountable recent blahs and win out of sheer embarrassment. And then, of course, there is Pirmin Zurbriggen, 25, the people's choice from Zurich to Zug, from Zell to Saas-Almagell, his tiny hometown in the Swiss canton of Valais...
...submit documents that would prove his tax delinquency. After the judge threatened to impose a $50,000-a-day fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded at Rich's Zug offices by Swiss authorities, who argued that the U.S. judge had exercised "extraterritorial power" in blatant disregard of Swiss sovereignty...
...four women and two men walked silently to their red leather armchairs in Room 110 of the Federal District Court Building in lower Manhattan. As dozens of reporters and spectators listened intently, the clerk asked Jury Foreman Richard Zug, an IBM computer specialist, if the panel had come to a decision. "We have," replied Zug. Reading carefully from the verdict form, Zug announced, "On actual malice: to the question, Has the plaintiff proved by clear and convincing evidence that a person or persons at Time Inc. knew that the defamatory statement was false or had serious doubts to its truth...
...legalese, the jury rendered its decision that TIME had not libeled General Ariel Sharon in a paragraph in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. After giving that verdict, however, Zug read a statement on behalf of the jury. It said that "certain TIME employees, particularly Correspondent David Halevy, acted negligently and carelessly in reporting and verifying the information which ultimately found its way into the published paragraph of interest in this case...
...Loatch also said that she and one other juror initially felt that TIME should be found to have acted with malice, but Foreman Zug argued that Halevy must have believed the appendix contained the disputed information. "We did not think he would have said it if he were not 100% certain," said Burdick. "He knew it could be checked the next morning by everyone in Israel who had access to that report." Ultimately, according to De Loatch, the jury believed that Halevy "wasn't actually out to get Sharon. He didn't make up the story, and he actually believed...