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Deadly Devices C.R. Bard Inc., one of the world's largest medical devicemakers, pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of selling untested heart catheters. The firm will pay $61 million in criminal fines and federal civil damages. The devices killed at least one person and caused 22 others to have emergency surgery...
...phone service -- even video phone service -- over TCI's ubiquitous cable wires, and thereby invade the territories of other Baby Bells from coast to coast. ''What we're seeing is the total redefinition of the communications industry,'' says Ken McGee, who studies such trends for the Gartner Group consulting firm. The deal triggered a speculative frenzy on Wall Street, where every phone company suddenly seemed to be on the make and every cable operator looked sweetly enticing. The big gainers among cable stocks included Cablevision Systems, which jumped 9 1/4 to 63 5/8 in a single day, and Comcast Class...
Daniel Manion is an Indiana attorney and a former state senator whose practice has been the usual small-firm mix of real estate transactions, business matters, wills and personal-injury claims. He has never argued a case before a federal appeals court or even been the lead lawyer in any federal case. That did not matter much to his clients or anyone else until President Reagan nominated the conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently...
...McCain, by contrast, stood firm - and alone. When asked about the war, he tried to turn the obvious political liability into a personal strength, a statement of character more than policy. "I would rather lose an election than lose a war," went his catchphrase. The strategy worked well in the primaries, among a mostly Republican electorate. But it did not give McCain the ability to escape the gravitational pull of the general election. Just a couple of months after winning the Republican nomination, McCain laid out his vision for a light at the end of the tunnel...
...Pope who had under-30s shouting and weeping for joy is a firm traditionalist who opposes what he calls "the dictatorship of relativism... whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires." At the climactic Mass Sunday morning, he told 300,000 worshipers that the modern world too often marginalized God. The Church "needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity," he said. "Do not be afraid to say yes to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness, and using all your talents in the service...