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Tort reform seemed inevitable, but after six weeks of negotiations in the spring of 1995, the package stalled over the issue of capping the punitive damages that juries use to punish defendants. Bush and the Republicans wanted a cap of $100,000; Bullock and the Democrats wanted it set at $1 million. When Bush refused to budge, state senator David Sibley, a Republican ally, told him the bill could die. Bush invited Sibley to the mansion for dinner that night. While they were eating, the phone rang. It was Bullock, calling to deliver something he was famous...
...giant, hairy man is pushing Leonardo DiCaprio on a cart through a supermarket, and no one is looking. I'm expecting European paparazzi, women with Sharpies offering their decolletage, or at least furtive glances from other shoppers. Nothing. Not even when DiCaprio, wearing a cap and glasses, gets off the cart and awkwardly lifts it over a cereal-aisle blockade. "You see, dawg. I just lifted that cart, dude," he says loudly, bragging about the effects of his new weight-lifting regimen. But nothing happens at the West Hollywood Ralphs branch besides deliberation in the brownie-mix aisle over Ghirardelli...
...shame that the rest of the Crimson was never able to bring its starting goalie the win he deserved. But he still has a month and a half to find a fitting cap on an otherwise stellar collegiate career...
Another project for Radcliffe this semester will be trying to cap off the Institute's 7-year independent capital campaign. Right now Radcliffe has raised over $85 million; they hope to reach $100 million by the end of the year...
...cap off the weekend, captain Brenda Taylor and junior Ed Baker headed to the Reggie Lewis Track Center to compete at the New Balance Invitational on Sunday afternoon. Results were not available at press time...