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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court decided Monday on a tight 5-4 vote to curtail punitive damage awards from juries. The court struck down as "grossly excessive" a $2 million award won by an Alabama doctor dissatisfied with his BMW. Althought businesses around the country hailed today's decision as a victory, the ruling did not contain any new legal guidelines for future punitive damages caps. The Court only made clear that the awards in this case were excessive and "transcended the constitutional limit". Among the dissenting judges, Antonin Scalia wrote for himself and Clarence Thomas that the ruling...
...Althought the grading distribution concernedmany students last semester, most were pleasedwith Sandel's interaction with the 930 students inand outside of class...
...Althought she claims to cringe when people want to show her thesis film, during these years she developed a documentary technique that still informs the movies she makes. For Salaam Bombay, her portrait of street children in the Bombay underworld, she set up acting workshops for these children and led group discussions to learn more about their lives, their speech patterns and attitudes as well as to acquaint them with the filmmaking process...
...Althought the Happy Hacker's first computer was made by Radio Shack, he no longer professes any brand loyalty. Sure, Tandy makes some reasonably priced IBM compatibles, but why waste your time looking at them at the Harvard Computer Society show when you can see them at your local Radio Shack...
...also, for U.S. audiences, been one of the more surprising. Althought McKellen, 41, is regarded on home ground in England as the pre-eminent stage actor of his generation, the class of a very classy field, he has been on Broadway only once before, in a short-lived Russian play staged in 1967. By the harsh standards of Broadway, McKellen before Amadeus was less a reality than a reputation. Even now he receives no applause of respectful recognition when he starts to speak in the first act. But when he reappears for the start of the second, the applause sounds...