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Trubek admits that there are many frivolous suits, abuses of discovery, and unethical lawyers, but denies that these are typical. "Evidence for most of the claims that we are an overlitigious society is weak at best," he says. Wisconsin Law Professor Marc Galanter, who has studied Trubek's research as well as other data on how Americans resolve their differences, is even more emphatic. The alleged litigation explosion, he says, is "a strong admixture of naive speculation and undocumented assertion." Shrager believes that the latest research finally gives support to trial lawyers after years of criticism from the Chief...
Canadians can keep their winnings tax free. An American would have to pay about half the winnings in U.S. taxes. Like most participants. Marc Lafleche of Montreal did not regret the week's wages he wagered. "Drawings like this are the only way the little guy can dream about a better life," he said. John Thome, 21, an unemployed laborer, can do more than dream. Thorne took his collection of 1,100 pennies to the bank, exchanged them for dollar bills and spent the $ 11 on lottery tickets. He was one of the ten second-prize winners...
...Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive, is quite in that league. Now they are all dead, the artists born between 1880 and 1900 who reshaped both culture and consciousness. Although it would be pious to suppose that much of Miró's work in the last 25 years of his life compared...
...When a quarterback has been around," says Plunkett, "booed, cheered and benched, he can feel good. He has lasted. Because every lasting quarterback experiences all of that in some order." Plunkett was benched for a while again this season (in favor of Marc Wilson, who promptly broke his shoulder). One criticism of Plunkett is that he finds risky passes irresistible. "A long pass is a beautiful thing to watch," he agrees...
...with each new collection. There are not many truly wealthy private clients left, and they instinctively flock to whatever guru has had his inspiration certified by the press and by a chic popular line. (Princess Caroline of Monaco may be the only young woman left who patronizes a couturier, Marc Bohan of Dior, the way her mother did.) Walking through this exhibition, one is struck by Saint Laurent's fecundity, his ability to harness everything-nostalgia, whimsy, exotic venues, painting, novels, poems, outright homages to predecessors like Chanel-into inspiration for a dress...