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...doctor wants to strike no more than does a textile worker. But the malpractice burden - indeed, the malpractice threat - is the final assault on the implicit contract society makes with its healers: you give up the best decade of your youth, your 20s, to treat the sick and learn your craft, and we will allow you to practice it with autonomy, dignity and the kind of security - and freedom from capricious victimization - that, oh, say, lawyers enjoy...
...services they need to make their re-entry work," she says. A similar philosophy has worked well in Los Angeles, where the County Office of Education operates 70 of these schools. They combine individual attention with stringent academic standards and an insistence on personal responsibility. Students must sign a contract stipulating that they will behave...
...truth, and Chuck Barris has avoided most of them. His 1984 book Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was subtitled An Unauthorized Autobiography, and it claimed that while he was creating game shows like The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game and hosting The Gong Show, he was a contract CIA assassin--a claim he still refuses to say was untrue. The movie version, directed by George Clooney and written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), which opens nationwide on Jan. 24, has tales the book never even imagined. "He wrote stuff out of nowhere," Barris says. "My mother never...
Luckily for Wiberg and others, the church ministers proposed a solution: a mortgage contract which allows the congregation to purchase the chapel property, worth more than $4 million, if they raised $2 million in two years...
...March 30, 2001, the seminary and the congregation signed the two-year mortgage contract, stating that the congregation would have to pay more than $2 million by March 30, 2003, as well as $200,000 in interest payments to purchase and keep the chapel property...