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INDICTED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 40, a top Republican lobbyist enmeshed in ethics investigations of his close friend, House majority leader Tom DeLay; on unrelated charges of defrauding lenders in the $147.5 million purchase of a casino cruise line in Florida five years ago; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
...police officer, a physician, a relative or any other concerned citizen. As a last resort, some adult children feel compelled to report their own parents. (Six states allow anonymous reporting.) Some complain that their parents' doctors are too timid about intervention. Linda Bryant, an administrative assistant in Orlando, Fla., was incensed when an eye doctor told her 76-year-old father that he was fine to drive. "I wrote the doctor," she says, "that if and when the accident happened, I'd send the victims to his doorstep as his liability...
...malpractice victims more amenable to a negotiated settlement, which is typically less costly and time consuming than a lawsuit. On a broader level, having a policy of apologizing may help a hospital's reputation or credibility. Says Robert Lord, chief legal officer for Martin Memorial Health Systems in Stuart, Fla.: "When we go into litigation and deny liability, people tend to take that more seriously...
...aren't kidding when they say they're going to take the Nick brand "everywhere that kids are." In May the Viacom-owned kids-entertainment company partnered with Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts to open the first Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn, a $110 million theme resort in Orlando, Fla. Drawing on the success of its wildly popular series like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants, which racked up $1.5 billion in retail sales alone last year, Nickelodeon is positioning itself at the center of the technology-driven environment its audience inhabits. TurboNick, launched several weeks ago on a broadband...
DIED. SUSAN GORDON LYDON, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. She came up with the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm but were afraid to discuss it. The topic, said a Ramparts editor, quickly ballooned from "a giggle to a cause," and her essay became a staple of many women's studies courses...