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...Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases, and to everyone's surprise, he agreed to help Medica find a way to compensate its victims...
...year's profits--$113 million in 2000--Medica's management could use about half to run the company. The other half would go to the injured patients, who would receive expenses and as much as $97,500 in cash and equity. Those who elected not to join in the settlement could still sue but couldn't win any money until the lien dissolved--in 2008 at the earliest...
Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has a slightly different way of solving the current crisis. Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told a European Union delegation last week that the war on terrorism should be linked to a peace settlement between Palestinians and Israel. That, he said, would shorten the campaign against terrorism to three years instead of 10. The prince admitted, however, that many Saudis had gone off to the other side. The Shehhi tribe of the impoverished southwestern province of Asir had provided some of the 10,000 fighters in the Afghan war against the Soviets. Many remained...
There's no surprise about the Bush administration's support for the principle of a Palestinian state. The idea is no longer particularly controversial, even in Israel. But the latest outbreak of violence, sparked by a Hamas raid on an Israeli settlement in the Gaza strip, highlights the uphill battle this administration faces in its increasingly urgent efforts to restart the peace process that would achieve such statehood...
...people have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian clashes in different parts of the West Bank and Gaza since Tuesday, when Hamas gunmen entered entered an Israeli settlement in Gaza and killed two teenagers. The latest upsurge in violence despite renewed cease-fire commitments by both sides will be deeply troubling to the Bush administration. Because Israeli-Palestinian violence typically translates into strong anti-American feelings on the streets of Arab capitals whose support for the anti-terrorism coalition is vital...