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...from proposing to Sonia Brownell, a shapely, high-spirited literary editor 15 years his junior. They were married in his hospital room. There he died three months later, aged 46. Brownell was a devoted if inept steward of his legacy. As biographer Spurling notes, Brownell redeemed herself with a lawsuit that won control of Orwell's royalties for son Richard, who grew up in Scotland, where he still lives, and became a dealer in farm equipment. Brownell also enforced Orwell's request for no biographies, though after her death in 1980 the gates opened. One former Orwell girlfriend told Taylor...
...employer, Carmack went to ground. A private detective was hired to stake out his mother's house. Carmack was finally caught running from his car to the front door and was served with a complaint. Now out on bail, he has been found liable in a $16.4 million civil lawsuit by EarthLink. Charges of criminal fraud filed by state attorney general Eliot Spitzer are still pending. "There are many more like Carmack," Spitzer warns. "This sends a message that we are pursuing them." Spitzer, a man who knows how to put himself in the spotlight, was the avenging angel...
...manner in which the Sun family's lawsuit against Guangzhou's government was resolved seems a more telling indicator of what's to come. Pressure from the media meant that an unprecedented number of state employees were disciplined. But the Guangdong provincial government issued a statement declaring that its C.-and-R. procedures are consistent with national policy. Sun's father, meanwhile, received a $53,000 settlement?and a team of police escorts, he told Time, to prevent him from discussing the case with the media. Nicolas Becquelin, research director of the New York City-based Human Rights in China...
...suffering a total nervous breakdown, but it isn't just because doctors are striking and maternity wards are closing. Health-care premiums are rising at unsustainable rates. Some economists estimate that unnecessary tests and procedures, ordered by doctors to build a record just in case there is a lawsuit, cost more than $100 billion a year--enough to provide health insurance for the 40 million Americans who have no coverage. Modern medical technology is bringing us miracle cures, yet the absence of backup systems to catch human errors is causing thousands of deaths each year. In our culture of legal...
SETTLED. AOL TIME WARNER'S LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT, with a cooperation agreement that ends a bitter rivalry between the companies. Microsoft will pay AOL $750 million to settle the antitrust suit brought by its Netscape unit and will grant AOL a seven-year license for use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser...