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...whopping $23 million by a small-town jury. In the Linnen case a theatrical Boston attorney, Alex MacDonald, pleading passionately for Linnen's family and shredding the defense's witnesses, forced the drugmaker's high-powered legal team to capitulate in mid-trial and offer a multimillion-dollar settlement rather than risk an even larger jury verdict...
...Sunshine State's employee retirement fund divested itself of more than $800 million in tobacco company stocks. Keeping the almost 20 million shares looked socially irresponsible since Florida was suing Big Tobacco for state medical dollars spent treating smoking-related illnesses and death, which resulted in a $13 billion settlement. As early as Wednesday, however, Florida may well decide to re-invest in the industry it has so successfully demonized in recent years. With tobacco stocks on the rise, Florida Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher now suggests that the state should do what's best for its $100 billion retirement fund...
...Miami of the north and the Illiniwek of the south. Read through the problematic cipher of fifth-grade pedagogy this was hardly history; instead of forging some kind of connection with the past, it served to set the stage on and against which the future was peremptorily defined. European settlement and the Chicago fire were just evidence of punctuated equilibrium in the disjunctive march of midwestern progress...
...Israelis, and to arrest known terrorists. But in the current climate, Arafat won't risk the heavy political price he'd have to pay on the Palestinian street for going after the radicals unless there was a tangible political incentive for doing so. And Sharon's position on the settlement question is likely to make more impact on Arafat than his cease-fire call, and the Palestinian leader is unlikely to be moved to do anything about fulfilling his side of the Mitchell proposals in the absence of a settlement freeze. Indeed, Israeli opposition leader Yossi Sarid appeared to echo...
...Israel make the first gesture towards implementing the Mitchell Report by declaring a unilateral cease-fire; he made the Palestinians look like the spoilers for deriding that gesture; and he has drawn the focus of discussion away from the fact that he has no intention of complying with the settlement-freeze recommended by the Mitchell Report as essential to creating a climate for peace...