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...commission recommended paying reparations to survivors. It looked to precedents like the Civil Rights Acts of 1988, which paid $20,000 to Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. It also cited the settlement of claims of Holocaust survivors from Swiss banks, which had retained some money deposited before the war by the survivors’ families, and the $2 million set aside by the Florida legislature for survivors of the 1923 attack on Rosewood, a black town burned during a week of rioting. There are other precedents. Families of victims of the East St. Louis riot...
...Heartbreakers, starring Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, puts another variation on the revenge chick theme. Siggy plays a vampy mom who seduces wealthy bachelors into marriage; Love plays the slutty daughter who seduces the newly married husband, facilitating her mom's collection of a divorce settlement. The mother-daughter con team might seem like a wickedly creative path to vengeance, but the film's premise is undercut both by the omnipresence of Love's breasts which flounce around in every scene as implied compensation for her poor thespian skills (and the fact that she just started dating Alec Baldwin...
...Skilling's setup to tell a Dallas audience of SMU Cox School of Business types that the giant is still kicking, and will try anything - even trading "weather options" - to keep itself financially robust. Seems Skilling's brother in Chicago is a meteorologist who's gotten him into "financial settlement contracts," which are bought by companies - like malls or snowmobile makers, for instance - whose business is dependent on the weather. "We're even looking at the rainfall market," says Skilling...
...concern that there may be enforcement concerns in the future should the United States enter any other agreements with North Korea. Publicly doubting the credibility of the parties even before they get to the negotiating table is always a good tactic for "getting to yes" on the peace settlement Bush claims to endorse...
Your article on what makes Yasser Arafat tick [WORLD, Feb. 26] captured the essence of what has made negotiating for peace in the Middle East so difficult: The immense pressure by Israel and the U.S. on the Palestinian Authority to agree to a settlement that defies the most basic aspirations of its people and leaves a future Palestinian state hobbled and impossible to manage. Bravo on an excellent and responsible piece of reporting! MAZ JADALLAH New York City