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DIED. BURNUM BURNUM, 61, quixotic Aboriginal activist who once staked claim to England atop the cliffs of Dover to protest the English settlement of Australia; of a heart attack; in Woronora, Australia. One of the 100,000 Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their parents and known as the "stolen generation," he adopted his great-grandfather's name, which means "great warrior...
...wronged Princess, insistent, inescapable. There were the oh-so-shocking revelations of "Diana, Her True Story." There was the ABC interview in November: the barely uncried tears. Wherever the cameras looked, the martyr Diana was there, comforting lepers, selling her gowns, squabbling over that (deservedly) monstrous divorce settlement...
WASHINGTON: While multi-billion-dollar legal settlements have Florida and Mississippi claiming victory over the tobacco industry, these deals are actually big wins for cigarette companies ? because they are saving money on the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement...
...instance, this week's $11.3 billion deal with Florida is a snip compared to the $18 billion it would have had to pay that state alone under the terms of the national settlement...
...caring for sick smokers. After weeks of testimony that included the admission by Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible that smoking "might" be responsible for as many as 100,000 deaths, Big Tobacco has packed up and left this state. Next stop: Washington, D.C., where the $368 billion national settlement remains to be renegotiated...