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This month, sleazy profiteer and self-professed 'journalist' Andrew Morton comes out with his latest magnum opus, Diana: Her New Life, in which he claims that a $24 million divorce settlement in is the works. Morton is the man who made his career telling inquiring minds around the world about Diana's late-night bulimic binges and five suicide attempts...
Several Kroks said they reached an amicable settlement with Kimball. The agreement required that the former general manager pay the group back for his expenses...
Levitt thinks the broker should answer a few questions on his own, such as, "Have you ever been censured or reprimanded or been a party to an arbitration settlement?" and "What's in it for you?" The broker may be getting commissions the client doesn't even know about: extra bonuses for selling the in-house mutual funds or free trips to Hawaii for selling the "product of the week." Did you realize, for instance, that a broker who switches firms is often rewarded with a double commission on whatever he buys and sells during his first few months...
Yasser Arafat is in a tighter pinch. Hamas rejects any settlement with Israel, and is aiming its fire as much at the P.L.O. leader as Rabin. Arafat is increasingly caught between Israeli demands that he crack down on the militants and his constituents' aversion to an inter-Palestinian fight. Even the relative moderates within Hamas were alarmed for their own reasons. "Things are out of our hands," said a sheik from the West Bank. "Wild people are running the show...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced a surprise settlement this afternoon of a suit by its fired executive director, Benjamin Chavis. The last-minute deal came just three days before a judge was supposed to rule whether the civil-rights group had to reinstate the North Carolina minister, who fell under a cloud of suspicion for alleged off-the-books payments to settle a sexual-harassment suit threat. No terms were disclosed...