Word: explainers
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...Tobacco and their attorneys get called a lot of things, but stupid - or suicidal - is rarely one of them. How, then, to explain the tactics industry lawyers used during and after their latest legal battle, tactics that incensed the very jurors charged with setting a price tag on tobacco's defeat...
LONDON--Buried in a sleepy corner of the Harvard campus, somewhere in the nation's largest collection of psychological data, lies a slim folder whose sealed contents might help explain what drove the Unabomber to kill...
...case of Jena helps explain why Foster has come to this conclusion. A month after the Justice Department sued Louisiana in 1998 for inadequate care of its jailed youth, a privately owned juvenile-detention facility opened there. Here was the state's chance to prove it could run a prison right, even if it meant contracting with an outside company--the Florida-based Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Instead a Justice Department investigation of Jena prompted the state to transfer all the inmates out of there last...
...doesn't take much to turn a life sour. It can take quite a bit of effort to sweeten it after the bad, vengeful habits have set in. What's good about this movie, written with witty restraint by Audrey Wells, is that it doesn't try to explain how Rusty arrived in the year 2000 from 1968. He is not an angel from heaven; he's just a kid lost in a time warp, as puzzled as anybody else about the trip he's on, and often hungry. Nor does the director, Jon Turteltaub, make a big mawkish deal...
...when I see something green in the refrigerator, my very first instinct - the one they always tell you is right on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" - is to hold my nose, reach in and gingerly remove the offending foodstuff. (That tendency, now that I think about it, could explain why there are never any green vegetables in my refrigerator. OK, there's really nothing much in my refrigerator at all besides a jar of capers and a few cans of Dr. Pepper, but that's a different story...