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...settlement was reached after two-and-a half years of legal maneuvering between Nicholaysen's lawyers and Risk Management, UHS's malpractice insurance company...
WASHINGTON: Struggling to regain the upper hand in settlement negotiations with the White House, attorneys for Paula Jones say they received a settlement offer -- $700,000 and an apology -- from the Clinton team three weeks ago, and turned it down. The Wednesday press release was an apparent rebuttal to a TIME report that Jones' team, lost in the shuffle of the Lewinsky scandal, was eager to settle. But Jones' attorneys claimed that Mitchell S. Ettinger, second-in-command to Clinton's lead counsel, Robert S. Bennett, had approached them with the offer but never responded when they made...
...Monica to light in the first place. And yet, even as the Lewinsky saga has strengthened Jones' public posture, it has not helped her prospects in court. Sources tell TIME that the Jones team has put out quiet feelers to see whether Clinton might want to talk again about settlement, only to find that the President may want a trial after...
Whether this Hail Mary play will work remains to be seen--as does the question of how long Gates' capitulation will last. The settlement merely delays the underlying case until April 21, when Microsoft's appeal is scheduled to be heard by a three-judge panel, viewed by antitrust sources as libertarian-leaning and thus possibly pro-Microsoft. By then programmers will be working with early versions of Windows98, which integrates Explorer even more fully--thus in theory solidifying Microsoft's hammerlock...
...budget a ?magnificent contradiction.? That it is, but Clinton?s populist proposals -- 100,000 new teachers, child care tax credits for working families -- will be hard to fight head-on. The Republicans would do better to concentrate on Clinton?s fiscally risky use of the proposed tobacco settlement; although that $368.5 billion deal is nowhere near being inked, the President has already earmarked nearly a quarter of it for new spending plans. The White House has already prepared its spin on that one -- if the settlement goes up in smoke, Congress looks like the villain for snatching money...