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...most significant impetus for the lawyer tax has been the billion-dollar fees paid as a result of the nationwide tobacco settlement between a number of states and the tobacco industry. The settlement compensates the states for the damage caused by cigarettes to their citizens' health to the tune of $200 billion over 25 years. As a result of the huge payout, the lawyers who represented the states in these cases and who negotiated the settlement stand to collect fees of more than $10 billion over the next 20 years. Bush's proposal, which has not yet been introduced...
...negotiated their contracts with the states, and those contracts should be respected. Those who took on the tobacco litigation, a novel and risky enterprise, did so without any promise from the states that they would be compensated. Furthermore, the lawyers involved were always clear about the percentage of the settlement they would receive if they won the case. No one has alleged that the lawyers defrauded the states, only that the compensation agreed to in advance by both the lawyers and the states now seems, in retrospect, excessive...
...yawning psychological gulf made the prospects unlikely for a quick settlement of issues such as Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlements and the status of Jerusalem. Arafat went into the final stretch demanding to be treated as an equal party. But he felt the Israelis never accorded him that status. "They act like they are 'giving' something to the Palestinians," complains Mohammed Dahlan, Arafat's security chief, "rather than making a historical deal...
...Barak were still conducting indirect but intensive secret negotiations aimed at achieving the comprehensive deal that eluded them in Maryland. He says a total of 53 working sessions, held as Barak was publicly refusing to talk until the violence ended, moved the two sides considerably closer toward a historic settlement. "What happened was real engagement," Erakat says. "Details on every issue--substance, maps--were discussed for the first time thoroughly...
...officers for gun running. With each passing day the intifadeh becomes more of a guerrilla war, including armed attacks by Arafat's security men working underground. Last week in Gaza, as Sharon forged a unity government with Barak, Israel assassinated a Force 17 commander, alleging he attacked a Jewish settlement. The following day, a Gaza bus driver in Israel killed eight Israelis by ramming his vehicle into a crowd of soldiers at a bus stop...