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...cases, such as a class action against the Bank of Boston for alleged improprieties involving escrow fees. The lawyers were awarded $8.5 million in fees, which was taken directly from customers' bank accounts. One class-action member discovered that $91.33 in legal fees had been deducted from his account--although he received only $2.19 in interest from the settlement award. Even in more traditional fee arrangements, the sheer size of some damage awards can mean that lawyers end up pocketing gargantuan amounts. Fees in nationwide tobacco litigation, for example, could top $30 billion. That's money that could be going...
Hence the teasing, intensely publicized secrecy; the warehouses bristling with security; the demands that bookstores not sell or even unpack copies of the new book before the first moments of July 8 (although a few did slip out earlier). Publishing records were noisily announced: a 3.8 million-copy first printing in the U.S., a million more in Britain...
...worth remembering right about here, that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...with Shaq and Kobe to idolize, not to mention all those loud wrestlers, what's the draw of a sport whose heroes are thousands of years old? Modern fencing isn't even as glamorous looking as it was in the movies Zorro and The Three Musketeers, although the high-tech electronic-scoring devices have a certain Nintendo-era appeal. Plus the modern gear makes it a lot safer, and that may be the key for parents. Weapons are covered at the tip, and fencers wear meshed masks and, often, plastic chest plates. The kids seem to enjoy the intricate rules...
...Although sorely tempted, I'm not going to nominate Dr. Sydney Spiesel for the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Spiesel invented a shampoo that makes the nits of head lice glow under ultraviolet light. The Nobel Committee doesn't go in for the sort of achievements that focus on everyday life, however stunning they may be. I learned that a long time ago when I tried to get the Nobel Peace Prize for the late Lisa Mosca, of Mosca's restaurant in Waggaman, La., for the perfection of her baked oysters. They gave it to Kissinger that year...