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...states signed onto a national settlement with the big tobacco corporations worth $206 billion. The money would be paid out over several years to the states, which had been forced to bear much of the health care costs of treating addicted smokers. In return, the tobacco companies were freed from the threat of endless, potentially bankrupting lawsuits. The states had sold the idea to voters with the understanding that this money would be used to care for ill smokers and prevent more kids from getting hooked...
...rainy day savings account. But at least that would be spending money for its original purpose. Blowing 25 years of tobacco money on the first recession that comes along makes the entire settlement a lie. Tobacco companies misled smokers for years about the consequences of their products. The settlement freed them from the threat of devastating lawsuits, but with the understanding that their own money would be used to keep the next generation away from cigarettes. Now that's being abandoned in statehouses around the country for a short-term solution...
Three of Monti’s treys came in the first half and kept Harvard in the game while Cserny and Peljto were being kept off the scoreboard. By proving herself to be a three-point threat, she freed up room for the post players inside...
...Berlin could also battle for what he thought he was due. "It took longer to write one of his contracts than a whole script," producer Arthur Freed recalled, adding that, afterward, he'd "give you anything you wanted." Avid to see his name above the title, he demanded and got possessive credit on many of his films: "Irving Berlin's 'On the Avenue,'" "Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas,'" Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies,'" "Irving Berlin's 'There's No Business Like Show Business'" and the grammatically confounding "Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.?" Even in the service, he needed...
Milbank opted to cite (if not love) his enemy. By exposing the nihilism of secular thought, he writes, postmodernism freed Christian theology from the need to "measure up to...standards of scientific truth and normative rationality." Thus unburdened, he suggests, it enjoys several advantages over secular competitors. Long before postmodernism, Christianity accepted unknowableness as part of God's nature. The Christian "story" is dense with associations and can be applied universally. In fact, he writes, its central dynamic of ever unfolding divine love places it outside--and above--postmodernism's conviction that each contending world view is rooted...