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Front-page stories in Britain now routinely question whether Blair lied to make his case, was lied to by the Americans or was the victim of a major intelligence blunder. A parliamentary inquiry is likely. Blair has a reputation for aggressive spinning, and if it's proved that he torqued up WMD evidence to serve his p.r. needs, he might even be pushed toward resignation. An intelligence official told the BBC that a dubious claim in the WMD dossier Blair released last September--that some of Saddam's troops were trained to deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes--was penned...
McDonough is a victim again, this time of the move to cap jury awards. Colorado is one of the few states that limit jury awards of both economic damages (say, for lost income) and noneconomic ones (for pain and suffering). Judge Warren Martin, now retired, cut McDonough's award to $1.33 million, concluding that although his injuries merited an exception to the $1 million cap, the jury had gone too far. (Colorado's caps limit economic damages to $750,000 and pain-and-suffering awards to $250,000. The former can be increased if a plaintiff shows future economic loss...
Proponents of damage caps say they simplify malpractice cases and weed out frivolous claims. But they can also entangle victims of heartbreaking tragedy like McDonough. No longer able to work, he spends his days doing crossword puzzles and preparing again for court. That was not the intention of the first jury, whose award was based not on mere sympathy but on calculations of McDonough's direct financial burden. According to foreman Joanne Kramer, in arriving at the $5.8 million in damages, the jury considered everything from home health-care aides to a van, a wheelchair, the loss of his home...
...family should ever have to learn the autopsy results of somebody they love on national TV." KIM PETERSEN, spokeswoman for Laci Peterson's family, after it was reported that the victim's unborn son had a cut across his shoulders and plastic tape around his neck...
...result, the Crimson was streaky, never stringing together more than two consecutive wins but falling victim to losing skids of three games or more on two separate occasions...