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...claims filed against them, no losses, no damages paid. But with popular opinion shifting against smoking and 47 states now suing to recoup their medical costs, Big Tobacco is worried enough about its chances going forward that it's offering hundreds of millions of dollars to settle. The key point for guns, like tobacco, is that negligence law turns on what society deems to be "reasonable" activity at a given time. "Judicial opinions are dressed up in the language of legal doctrine, but it all depends on public opinion and public policy," says University of Arkansas law professor Andrew McClurg...
...Albright's olive branch as nothing new, demanding that the U.S. apologize for a half-century of wrongs toward Iran. In a domestic power struggle that has intensified in the past month, the hard-liners have put the moderate mayor of Tehran on trial on corruption charges, ousted a key Khatami Cabinet minister and ordered the closure of a new liberal newspaper licensed under the President's pledge of greater press freedom. "What we are seeing," says Tehran University political scientist Nasser Hadian, "is a fight for the soul of Iran...
...musical orthodoxy. For too long, critics, taking the public with them, have looked to rock and gangsta rap to fill the pantheon of pop heroes. But there was a time when auteurs had soul, when Marvin was asking what's going on, when Stevie was singing songs in the key of life, when Aretha was demanding respect. This season, with the ascension of a new generation of neo-soul stars, the past may be present again, and, to paraphrase Fanon, the future may be opening...
President Clinton met Friday with a key Hong Kong democrat, but it was Washington Republicans who may have made the President's day. GOP leaders, who had begun preparing a deluge of anti-China legislation in the run-up to Clinton's departure, now concede that the President's trip has been a success, and it's failed to produce the election fodder they had anticipated. Newt Gingrich, who had earlier called for the trip's postponement, admitted Clinton's triumph and approved of a closer U.S.-China relationship through gritted teeth. "It's less expensive to be friends than...
Unpaid miners were planning to return to their barricades along key rail lines Friday and more state employees were poised to walk out. "IMF officials believe the crisis will force Moscow to undertake reforms which would leave it better off in the long run -- but only if Russia can make it that long," says Meier. Tax reform has persuaded the IMF to release a delayed $670 million installment of a long-term loan, but Russia wants a $10 billion to $15 billion rescue plan. "The bailout has become the key to recovery," says Meier. "It's a psychological thing -- investors...