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...living large. Texas tort king Joe Jamail is widely known as the world's richest lawyer, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. When Frederick Furth, a top San Francisco trial lawyer, isn't litigating antitrust cases, he is engaging his passion for wine at his 1,200-acre Chalk Hill vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif. Wayne Reaud (pronounced Ree-oh) has used his hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from asbestos and other "toxic tort" litigation to buy the local newspaper and a chunk of downtown real estate in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Maryland trial lawyer Peter...
...some Americans still falling prey to poor oral health? According to a sweeping report issued Thursday by the Surgeon General's office, a disproportionate number of minorities and low-income Americans suffer from cavities, gum disease and oral cancer - even as the rest of the nation continues to chalk up victories over the same ailments. Close to half of the nation's poor blacks and Hispanics have untreated tooth decay, compared with 27 percent of poor whites. Researchers are blaming the disparity on a combination of economic and social factors, including poor diet, lack of affordable dental care...
...might be tempted to chalk all of this up to a disgusting display...
...another intellectual, Frances Fitzgerald, takes a determined run at Reagan in her new book, "Way Out There in the Blue" (Simon & Schuster, 592 pages, $30). Fitzgerald goes for the unambivalent version - a Reagan who is cheerfully, dangerously clueless, a simpleton actor who performs superbly when standing on chalk marks and reading from a script, the GOP's Prince Myshkin. Fitzgerald takes her title from the cliche in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman": "Willy [Loman] was a salesman... He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." Ronnie Reagan is Willy...
...nascent field of cyber civil liberties, you can chalk up one in favor of First Amendment purists. The Federal Election Commission has voted against the George W. Bush campaign after it complained that a parody site with the domain name "gwbush.com" was a form of anti-Bush electioneering and should be subject to FEC rules governing campaign spending. The site, which closely follows the look of the Bush campaign's official web pages, contains subtly headlined articles suggesting that Bush used illegal drugs and may be unqualified to be president. Bush's official site is addressed "georgewbush.com." According...