The federal jury in Ariel Sharon’s $50-million...

The federal jury in Ariel Sharon’s $50-million libel lawsuit in New York against Time Inc. adjourned for the night after beginning a second week of deliberations, trying to determine if a Time article about Sharon was published with the knowledge it was false, or with reckless disregard of whether it was false. The burden of proof lies with the former Israeli defense minister, and in the first five days of deliberations the jury has found for Sharon on two issues: that a key paragraph of a 1983 Time magazine cover story about a massacre in Lebanon was defamatory, and that it was false.