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With the e-mail public, Merrill felt its reputation was beginning to suffer. It finally agreed to settle, without admitting wrongdoing, on the condition that there be a broad agreement precluding similar suits by other zealous state attorneys general. The deal was pounded out. In the end, Spitzer says, he didn't negotiate the fine. He called Merrill Lynch's lawyers and recalls saying, "It's $100 million. It won't kill you. I want this settled tonight." Merrill agreed to pay the fine, apologize and reform the way it paid its analysts. The public applauded the deal, though Spitzer...
...much like "tattletale," says Cooper. But if the term unnerves Cooper and Rowley, that may be because whistle-blowers don't have an easy time. Almost all say they would not do it again. If they aren't fired, they're cornered: isolated and made irrelevant. Eventually many suffer from alcoholism or depression...
Moral decency survives at Harvard as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement of regret demonstrates. Summers’ statement affirms that homosexual students at Harvard will not suffer from a hierarchy that privileges uniformity and the stifling of individual identity. Expulsion devastated the lives of those forced to withdraw in 1920. The result of discrimination was not a better or more decent university, but the shame and suicide of many of those involved. Pappin’s lack of sympathy for the real and human consequences of his “moral decency” is not just...
...smallpox virus, it can be extremely dangerous to people whose bodies are not capable of fighting off disease. As many as 60 million Americans with compromised immune systems will not receive the vaccine. People with AIDS, HIV, cancer, who have had organ transplants or a history of eczema could suffer extremely serious side effects from exposure to the virus, including death. Pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding should also not receive the vaccine...
...England Journal of Medicine investigated the possible effects of mercury on the heart, and they seem to have reached contradictory conclusions. One found no clear link between mercury levels and heart disease; the other found that men with high levels of mercury in their toenails were more likely to suffer a heart attack than those with low levels...