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...that it had approved all the necessary treatments and acted promptly and responsibly throughout. His widow Teresa felt otherwise and sued; Aetna, she said, in effect hastened her husband's death. In a decision with national resonance, a jury in San Bernardino County Superior Court agreed. Strenuously. In the stiffest such penalty ever imposed on an HMO, the jury two weeks ago awarded Goodrich's estate almost $750,000 in compensatory damages for medical costs and $3.8 million for "loss of companionship and support." In a separate decision last Wednesday, it topped those figures off with a breathtaking $116 million...
...more righteous last week when it was reported that he'd made a pass at a bartender in Cody last summer, got punched in the face and falsely reported to police that he'd been raped. (No charges were filed.) If only a punch in the face were the stiffest penalty for making a pass...
...many, getting any kind of job after high school is one of life's stiffest challenges. But for TRACY MCGRADY, 18, who finished school just a few days ago, that won't be a problem. Not only is he expected to be a first-round draft pick for the N.B.A.--he has already worked out for 10 teams--but Adidas, the athletics company that clearly has much more cash than patience, just signed him to an endorsement deal that could be worth $12 million over six years. All this before he has spent even one second in the N.B.A...
...question now is whether Olympic judges--and other teams--will make the same adjustment, favoring artistry over perkiness. The teams from Romania and the former Soviet republics, which have posed America's stiffest challenges, are also expected to field older competitors in '96. Come 1997, they will have little choice: in that year international rules will raise the minimum age of competitors from 15 to 16, a direct result of the '92 spectacle...
Boston College on April 23 should prove to be the lightweight's stiffest competition before it faces reigning national champions Fordham at the Eastern Sprints...