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...threat of the "chain creep"--the proliferation of brand-name superstores--that elicits much aggression from the Defense Fund...
...dastardly act. According to a fateful 1886 Supreme Court decision, corporations are persons, entitled like anyone else to freedom of speech, even when they use it to promote the widespread consumption of a poisonous substance. They are not, however, persons who can be lethally injected or attached to a chain gang, no matter how wicked their crimes. In 1996, for example, Rockwell International was found guilty of causing an explosion that killed two company scientists. Pfizer manufactured a defective heart valve that caused 360 deaths worldwide. In all these cases, hefty fines were levied and stern statements were made...
...squabbling over roadside opportunities, they are engaged in a larger struggle for the sick and elderly in this town of 15,000. Their philosophies are at opposite extremes of today's health-care debate. Bedford Regional has eagerly embraced managed care and linked itself to a statewide hospital chain. County-owned Dunn is sticking to an almost Norman Rockwell vision of traditional health care. The hospital war being waged nationally is taking place here in microcosm; it is at institutions like Dunn that traditional medicine may be making its last stand...
...they say, when the two automobile companies with large plants in Bedford start requiring employees to shift to managed care and when Medicaid and Medicare begin pushing recipients into HMOs. At that point, if Dunn is to survive, it may have to sell out to a large for-profit chain. Should that happen, Bedford's medical civil war will simply rage on with even greater firepower...
Drabinsky, 47, a stocky man with a thick head of hair and a giant limp (a remnant of childhood polio), grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Toronto, and abandoned a law career to build the Cineplex Odeon movie-theater chain (from which he was ousted in a corporate coup). He is well known, and sometimes disliked, for his outsize ego and strong hand in the creative process. "If you're respected, it's a collaboration," he says. "If there's no respect...