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...Houston jury, however, was led to believe otherwise by Pennzoil's colorful lawyer, Joseph Jamail. A Lone Star folk hero who wears cowboy boots in court, Jamail may earn more than $2 billion in legal fees if the fine stands. A personal-liability specialist, he once won a $6.8 million settlement against Remington Arms, a gun company...
...paranoid schizophrenic [and] seriously psychotic," but one of them concluded: "We have no reason to believe that she shows a significant likelihood of dangerous behavior to those around her." Last week in a Manhattan office that prognosis proved to be fatally flawed. --By William J. Mitchell. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York and Charles Pelton/San Francisco
Perhaps, Gans suggests, the press should pay more attention to criticism from the "ideologically inclined." But how? By playing up fears and suspicions that the press itself believes to be exaggerated? The press remembers when it headlined every wild accusation by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy without checking his facts. That lesson in irresponsibility the press has no need to unlearn...
...DIED. Joseph ("Big Joe") Turner, 74, Kansas City, Mo.-born blues "shouter" of huge girth (300 lbs.) and voice, whose long career and 200 record albums reflected black music's migration into cities in the 1930s, its influence on jazz in the '40s and its transformation into rhythm and blues in the '50s; of kidney failure; in Inglewood, Calif. Several of his biggest hits, including Chains of Love (1951), Sweet Sixteen (1952) and, most memorably, Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954), later became rock-'n'-roll classics after being bowdlerized by such white artists as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley...
Danneels also took issue with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and a leading church conservative, who feels that Vatican II led to a lamentable confusion about what Catholic teaching truly is. Asked whether the synod would launch a "restoration" of the church, a term used by Ratzinger in a recent controversial book to describe the efforts to counteract supposed damage from liberal interpretations of Vatican II, Danneels snapped, "We are not having a synod about a book...