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...defending celebrities in highly publicized cases, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has used the courtroom to make powerful political statements. And he has made just as significant political assertions with his checkbook as well...
...liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates, the insurance companies? medical decisions will be fair game. Fierce anti-HMO public opinion and the AMA?s fat checkbook are making patients? rights more politically attractive than ever, and despite concerns that opening HMOs to expansive (and expensive) litigation would raise insurance costs, preliminary data from Texas shows virtually no increase in the number of medical lawsuits since that state?s new law was enacted...
Even the best character-ed programs, though, can be seen as the culmination of a long process by which schools have assumed more and more responsibilities traditionally handled at home. The average school now teaches kids how to choose a balanced diet, drive, balance a checkbook, have sex (in sex ed), not have sex (in abstinence programs), identify sexual abuse and avoid HIV. We are a long way from reading, writing and arithmetic, and have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings...
...months ago, after stints at IBM and Hughes Electronics, Armstrong has unleashed a wave of high-profile, big-bucks purchases that has sent both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then the second largest cable company...
...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...