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Creekside attorney James Geary says Creekside was unexceptional. "It was probably no better, and no worse," he says, "than any other nursing home." Except that Creekside is paying for its lack of care. Bessie Seday, for example, collected a $862,500 settlement last December stemming from the infected bedsores she contracted while living at Creekside...
...didn't think I had to." Johnson, now 98 and living in a Utah nursing home, doesn't talk much about her experience. "Creekside was mean to me," she says. "They didn't give me a drink, they yelled at me, they hurt me." She received a $775,000 settlement...
...SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and NORMA BROIN, 42, lead plaintiff in the $5 billion class action filed on behalf of 60,000 flight attendants seeking damages for secondhand-smoke-related health problems; in Miami. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard agreed to pay $300 million to set up a research foundation on cancer...
...dysfunctional and portraits of artists as young scamps. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, the new memoir by J.M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Booker Prize-winner, ostensibly falls into the final category. In this short and elegantly written book, Coetzee chronicles his childhood in Worcester, a dusty settlement outside of Cape Town. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, the young Coetzee struggles with his Afrikaans identity, quarrels with his parents and pursues a secret double-life...
HOOTERS Joy-Toys Are Us. Pays skimpy discrimination settlement to keep skimpily clad waitresses...