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...everyone accepts that link. "In theory, tort reform would have an impact on premiums. In reality, that has not been the case," says Martin Weiss, chairman of Weiss Ratings, an independent insurance-rating agency in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. In a study published this week, Weiss Ratings found that in states without caps on noneconomic damages, median annual premiums for standard medical-malpractice coverage rose 36% between 1991 and 2002. But in states with caps, premiums rose even more--48%. In the two groups of states, median 2002 premiums were about the same. Weiss found nine states with flat...
Britain's dreamy PRINCE WILLIAM will turn 21 this month, and like any other healthy young man coming of age, he celebrated by giving an interview to Britain's Press Association. His Royal Flyness, who seems to have answered questions while playing golf on a beach, is finishing up his second year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he is captain of the water polo team. "People here just treat me like everyone else," he says. "I'm able to live a near normal life." William is majoring in art history but considering a switch to geography...
...adios" while the girls ignore the come-ons. On tracks like the heartsick Things I Miss the Most--with Fagen yearning for the days of "Frying up my sad cuisine/Getting in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine"--the two are loners romanticizing lechery. On Blues Beach, the romance is replaced by a tropical bleakness: "I'm dying, freezing in the merciful rays/And it's the long sad Sunday of the early resigned...
DIED. SLOAN WILSON, 83, author of the best-selling 1955 novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Colonial Beach, Va. His novel of suburban and corporate angst struck a postwar nerve and coined a cultural catchphrase...
...Business Jet service offered by Germany's Lufthansa Airlines are aimed at executive travelers. Others, like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways, are profitably targeting bargain hunters. Some are even more offbeat: Want to fly among skimpily clad hostesses from Atlanta or Newark, N.J., for a golf weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C.? Try Hooters Air. Feel the urge to disrobe once you're airborne? Fly Naked...