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After getting out of prison she moved to 47 East Broadway, paying $3 million in cash, according to government sources, for a building directly across the street from a branch of the Bank of China, Beijing's central bank. She set up her restaurant in the building, and it quickly became a hub of the illegal Fujian Chinese community. It also became a major competitor of the bank. According to police and a number of Ping's clients, she used her connections in China to begin transferring money from those she smuggled back to their families in China. She proved...
Even getting Africans to talk about sexually transmitted disease is difficult, says Susan Muguro of the Kenya branch of Standard Chartered Bank, which has begun its own AIDS-awareness programs. The bank's trainers get staff members used to talking about AIDS, safe sex and condoms by making them call out the names of body parts such as penis and vagina. "At first," says Muguro, "people were giggling and blushing. Typhoid wastes us; malaria wastes us; but this disease touches the core of humanity--our sexuality...
CLEARED. The U.S. government, of responsibility for the deaths of some 80 Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, during the 1993 siege by federal agents; by an advisory panel of jurors in a wrongful-death suit brought by relatives and surviving cult members; in Waco. A federal judge will render the final verdict...
Critics of trial lawyers say Scruggs and a cabal of his colleagues are using litigation to hijack hot-button social issues that should be resolved in Congress and the state legislatures. "Trial lawyers are an unelected fourth branch of government," fumes Walter Olson, an author and trial-lawyer foe. Corporate executives complain that the cost of fighting lawsuits, let alone losing them, drives up prices of products ranging from ladders to automobiles and holds down wages and job creation and profits. Adding to the outrage: many plaintiffs' lawyers are getting very rich. The tobacco-settlement legal fees--to be shared...
...Dickie Scruggs doing? He's suing the HMOs. Is Dickie Scruggs doing the right thing? No. But do you blame him? No." Scruggs adds that "we wouldn't have made the progress we've made in civil rights in this country without the courts' acting when the Legislative Branch wouldn...