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...bill for that $206 billion payout to the states? Kings-of-smokes Philip Morris and RJR announced Monday that they would be raising cigarette prices by 45 cents a pack. The rest of the Big Five are expected to follow suit -- this despite analysts' calculations that the 25-year settlement could be paid for with increases of only 35 to 40 cents...
...near the town of Chillicothe, Ohio. The brothers were quite fair, being only an eighth black, and Jeffersonian in appearance: tall with reddish hair and gray eyes. But Thomas would become a leader in the black community, founding an African Methodist church. Madison put down roots near a mulatto settlement and also stayed in the black community. "Though we consider it a gift of God, our one enduring question is why Madison chose to stay black when it might have been easier to live as white," asks his descendant, Shay Banks-Young, 54, who lives in Columbus...
...months ago, after the President admitted to a dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, Jones took that as vindication of her own claim that Clinton made a sexual advance toward her in 1991. She then dropped her demand for an apology, a key reason why earlier settlement talks had foundered. Last Friday, after negotiations complicated by a million-dollar sweetener from eccentric New York millionaire Abe Hirschfeld, Jones settled the case for $850,000--a tidy premium over the $700,000 she sought when she brought...
...least five sets of lawyers with possible legal bills to present. (The Rutherford Institute has run up $400,000 on her behalf.) Clinton should be able to fund the payout from his insurance and his Legal Expense Trust, which as of August held about $1 million. The settlement does not exempt him from a possible contempt citation by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones case. But the deal will give the President yet another boost going into this week's impeachment hearings. In that light, it looks like a bargain...
...YORK: When it comes to fighting Big Tobacco, it's probably best to take the money and run. In a unanimous decision, 46 states (the remaining four have already reached individual agreements) have joined a $206 billion settlement with the Big Five cigarette makers, signing away their right to sue in exchange for educational and smoking-cessation programs, a ban on cartoon camels and other kid-friendly ads -- and, of course, the money...