Word: dealing
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...Jones' pasts can be dredged up before a jury. The stakes are high for both sides: the worst-case scenario has the President facing a parade of the blond and the jilted, former mistresses spoiling for payback (or worse, mistress wannabes yearning for attention or a book deal). So lawyers for both sides have been taking depositions from people who claim to have had sexual relations with Clinton, including Gennifer Flowers. At the deposition, Jones' lawyers were also in a position to ask questions of Clinton about his sexual history. But none of this may be admissible in court. When...
...everything to do with how much pain each side can inflict on the other in public. Clinton would probably win the customary agreement that neither side divulge the details once the case is settled. But given all that has leaked already under the current gag order, that kind of deal isn't worth much. So why settle...
...main reason the tobacco companies so badly want Congress to approve the $368 billion deal they cut last year with the states is that it offers them immunity against future lawsuits. And the main reason they want immunity is to save money. But they also want to save face. In every tobacco lawsuit, plaintiffs can demand and make public the industry's internal documents, even as a condition of cases settled out of court. Just how damaging those disclosures can be is plainer than ever since last week, when a California suit opened a flood of secret industry papers. What...
...industry that used to fight to the death is now flinching, partly because it can't afford more embarrassment just as Congress is approaching a tobacco settlement. In the Senate, Republican John McCain of Arizona, no friend of tobacco, is predicting a ferocious fight. To begin with, the deal is nobody's baby in Washington. "Congress is not inclined to simply embrace an arrangement negotiated by the attorneys general with Big Tobacco in a hotel room," says a Republican aide. Some members of Clinton's circle, including Vice President Al Gore and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala...
Those close to him say the Pope retains all the mental drive of his early days. Vatican aides say he has not dropped any of the reins of church government. "I've watched him deal with extremely complicated decisions," says a Vatican bishop, "and the way he works them through shows that he's still very sharp and in full control." Important decisions are "the Pope's and his alone...