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Vivid cornered the market on porn queens by signing them to package contracts, promoting them heavily, and sending them on incredibly lucrative strip-club tours.
Peter Pringle's ticktock of the legal battle, Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice , answers the first question: The plaintiffs' lawyers and the attorneys general proved indefatigable; incriminating documents were leaked from inside the big tobacco companies; an important industry scientist defected; and, most importantly, Wall Street, fearing a bottomless payout, signaled the industry to submit.
At any rate, when Bill was finally cornered by the school bully and forced to blurt the truth, Hillary was revealed to be not just a wronged woman but a lousy lawyer--and she was most gratifyingly furious.
With Africana , where Gates and Appiah, rather sentimentally and opportunistically, see themselves as the descendants of Du Bois, whose unfilled dream was to produce such a book, Gates seems to have cornered the market on black reference books that shape the canon of black studies, that define the field and its major players.
In the days since The Speech, the papers have been fairly spattered with editorial complaints that Bill Clinton should have come clean seven months ago--he shouldn't have had to be cornered first.