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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...
Even the clothes Leo's wearing, the Puma cap, baggy drawstring pants, a chain with his grandmother's cross and a T shirt with a devil on it, can't have been chosen randomly. The devil is a logo for an old Coney Island carnival. "I optioned this book called Dreamland about the biggest theme park in Coney Island," he says. "My dad went to Coney Island a lot. I'm fascinated by freaks." He also optioned a book about Howard Hughes that he's talking to Michael Mann about directing. "That's the best part about the position...
...best-selling memoirs on their struggles before they've even taken their SATs. Expect a crop of precocious old souls filling the talk shows with painful reminiscences of their abrupt descent into addiction after, in the months preceding their Bar Mitzvah, their Internet start-up lost half its market cap because of an unforeseen jump in interest rates...
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...