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...Bernard Lewinsky, who headed a lucrative oncology practice. She accused Lewinsky of carrying on an affair and having "a violent temper" that induced profanity-strewn tirades against her and the children. Meanwhile, Dr. Lewinsky charged Lewis with running up his credit-card bills in anticipation of the divorce. The settlement downsized the family's life-style; Bernard Lewinsky, who paid $6,000 a month in spousal and child support after the settlement, now lives in a one-story stucco house. It is worth $700,000, but it lies in a modest section of Brentwood, a few blocks from Nicole Brown...
Well, again, not quite. The settlement was how politics works in America. The way capitalism works is this: strategists at such vendors as Dell and Compaq let it be known that they had no plans to offend the company that rules their industry by accepting an offer made with a gun to its head. Meanwhile, Gates' browser rival, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, held his own Thursday press conference, seizing this window of Microsoft vulnerability to announce that not only will he start distributing Netscape's Navigator browser for free, just like Microsoft, but that he will also give away...
More to the point, both Clinton and the First Lady are adamantly opposed to a settlement. Both feel that they have already borne the brunt of the bad publicity. As lawyers looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the case, they also expect to win. In a case that essentially boils down to Clinton's word against Jones', the burden of proof is upon Jones. Much will also depend on whether she can convince the jury that she suffered setbacks in her job as a state government clerk because she rebuffed Clinton or that his attentions to her created...
...With jury selection scheduled to start this week, Humphrey has 33 million pages of industry papers that he says provide not just a smoking gun but "a howitzer" against tobacco. To avoid a long and potentially embarrassing trial in Texas, cigarette makers opted last week for a $15 billion settlement of a lawsuit there. If a judge approves it, the companies will pay the state that much over 25 years to compensate for health-care costs and to fund antismoking programs. After Minnesota's case, there are nearly 40 state suits pending...
...industry that used to fight to the death is now flinching, partly because it can't afford more embarrassment just as Congress is approaching a tobacco settlement. In the Senate, Republican John McCain of Arizona, no friend of tobacco, is predicting a ferocious fight. To begin with, the deal is nobody's baby in Washington. "Congress is not inclined to simply embrace an arrangement negotiated by the attorneys general with Big Tobacco in a hotel room," says a Republican aide. Some members of Clinton's circle, including Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala...