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...Modern medicine has given us a lot of great new things with which to help our patients. Placebo, though, just might be? one of the things it's taking away. Not many docs with enough credibility, not many patients with enough faith. Toss in the lawsuit threat with our increasingly medically-savvy patient base, and the fact that few U.S. docs report using placebo at all anymore is not suprising...
...unusual about Kelly's story--aside from the rehiring of the bartender, who was booted once again after his new boss learned he had falsified his employment records--is that she is able to tell so much of it. Unlike many other cruise-crime victims, Kelly, 49, settled her lawsuit with an agreement that allows her to talk about her experience, although she can't name the cruise line or the size of the settlement. This week she will testify before a congressional committee as it debates whether there needs to be greater federal oversight of the booming cruise industry...
...Instead, within days, the restaurant's landlord filed a lawsuit saying Del Posto had violated its lease during construction by building into unauthorized space and installing unapproved lights. The landlord has also claimed the restaurant lacked all its city permits. The spat seems a bit overblown-permitting delays?-but the New York Post reported last week that billionaire financier Henry Kravis, a Del Posto investor, is trying to negotiate a settlement with the landlord. For their part, Batali and Joseph Bastianich have told reporters they hope to be at their corner of 16th Street and Tenth Avenue for the duration...
...case originated in a lawsuit filed in 1986 by NOW against Joseph Scheidler, the national director of the Pro-Life Action League...
Just in case HOWARD STERN was running out of villains to decry on the air, his old boss, CBS CEO LES MOONVES, has stepped in to help. CBS Radio filed a fraud and breach-of- contract lawsuit seeking more than $200 million from the radio host, his agent and his new employer, Sirius Satellite Radio. The suit says Stern spent his last 14 months at CBS talking up Sirius and hiding a deal to earn stock for boosting his new company's subscriber numbers. Stern calls the suit a "personal vendetta." On the upside, it will give him months...