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Last October David brought his suspicions to Susan Swanson, a childhood friend of his wife's who works for the Investigative Group Inc., a prominent detective firm. She in turn contacted Clinton Van Zandt, a behavioral-science specialist, formerly the FBI's chief hostage negotiator, who runs a security consulting firm. Without saying who had written them, Swanson turned over typed copies of two of Ted's handwritten letters. She asked Van Zandt to compare them with the manifesto. After studying them with a psychiatrist and a linguist, he found a 60% probability the same man had written both...
...PepsiCo Inc. may reexamine its policy on investing in Burma as a result of pressure by human-rights activists on college campuses across the country...
Feel better now? If the deal is approved by stockholders, as expected, the combined entity, to be known as Aetna Inc., will provide health care for 23 million people, or 1 in every 12 Americans. The $8.9 billion merger, which mirrors a recent batch of smaller consolidations in the managed-care field, is a clear signal that big medicine is here to stay, whether you like its bedside manner or not. "The main effect of the huge merger is that it will be replicated by insurers across the country," says Kenneth Abramowitz, a health-care analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein...
...proposed Aetna Inc. will undoubtedly play a leading role in determining which perception prevails. For staid and paternalistic Aetna, a longstanding leader in traditional indemnity plans (you pick the doctors; they pick up the bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the brave new world of managed care, where consumers must choose from a company-approved network of doctors, who agree to fixed charges for most services. Or consumers can join health-maintenance organizations, which directly employ doctors and nurses. "We are going into the managed-care business because that's what people...
...festival (half of whose million-dollar annual budget is underwritten by the Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc., the Louisville-based health-care company) is not exactly a secret. "What we've tried to be," says Jon Jory, the ATL's guiding light for 27 years, "is a freshet for the American repertoire." Among the 224 new plays in the fest's 20 years are two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, as well as Agnes of God, Extremities and off-Broadway's current Below the Belt. And however perilous the playwright...