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Libel plaintiff lawyers like Attorney Gerry Spence counter that the victims of a writer's vendetta or recklessness are entitled to recompense. "We must be free to fictionalize, but we can't hurt people with the exercise of our freedom," says Spence. Six years ago he represented a former Miss...
When she left her work as a receptionist at the California Federal Savings and Loan Association office in West Los Angeles to have her first baby, in 1982, Lillian Garland figured she would simply take a short, unpaid disability leave and return to her job, a right guaranteed by state...
These days Khashoggi seems to have trouble affording his own fantasy life. Despite the Iranian deals, his days as a big-time arms broker are past. He has invested in ambitious development projects around the world, several of which have come undone. In Salt Lake City where Khashoggi launched a...
Isozaki's design did not fare smoothly at first. It fell afoul of a small group of trustees headed by Industrialist Max Palevsky, who, along with Eli Broad, put up the initial seed money for the museum -- $1 million each, spread over four years. Palevsky wanted a plain hangar of...
But as oil dropped from $32 a barrel to $9, the Texas economy went dry -- and just about everything that Connally and Barnes touched turned bad. Their $14 million, 14-story office building in Houston, 80% vacant, was foreclosed on and sold at auction. A swanky housing development, Triple Crown...