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That's what Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore thought he had negotiated last year when he reached a $368.5 billion settlement on behalf of 40 states. But support quickly vanished. Bill Clinton backed away amid protests by the health lobby and some Democrats that the deal was too easy on Big Tobacco. "I looked around," Moore recalls, "and there was nobody behind...
WASHINGTON: Calling the current tobacco settlement legislation "the politics of punishment," RJ Reynolds CEO Steven Goldstone announced Wednesday that his company wanted no part of the Senate's vision of the deal -- and that the rest of the Big Five would soon follow...
...matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail to the outside is stamped, sorted and bagged, but not sent out. A schoolteacher who arrives from Brisbane to instruct the settlement's children is judged to be dangerous and is, as smirking locals say, "transferred." Nothing more is heard from...
...involved with the Jones litigation "to raise the institute's profile." That is wrong. As Mr. Whitehead has repeatedly explained, the institute made its decision to assist Paula Jones in September 1997, when the press reported that her attorneys had departed because she refused to accept the President's settlement offer. Without attorneys or funds, Ms. Jones would have had no chance of having her day in court...
...settlement does not require the NCAA to admit doing anything improper and executive director Cedric Dempsey confirmed that Las Vegas will freeze over before Tark ever gets an apology...