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Since the story broke, Burkett has not spoken to reporters. His lawyer says Burkett never falsified any memos. Besieged by calls last week from irate viewers, the CBS affiliate in Abilene, Texas, 21 miles from Burkett's home, broadcast a special message disavowing the network's original story. As for Bush's military records, they still contain glaring holes. But that has been largely forgotten in the recent excitement. Says a senior Administration official of the focus on CBS's predicament: "This is the gift that keeps on giving." --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Abilene, John F. Dickerson/Washington, Sean Gregory...
...mystery didn't last long. As first reported in the Los Angeles Times, Buckhead is Harry MacDougald, 46, a conservative, big-firm lawyer from Atlanta with a history of pugnacious activism. As an advisory-board member for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, he helped write the group's petition to disbar Bill Clinton and worked with former Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr to challenge a federal campaign-finance law. As the online avenger Buckhead, he has described Clinton as the "Ozark Caligula." Now identified, MacDougald shuns media attention; as one of his postings claimed, perhaps disingenously: "It wasn...
...Provena overly harsh? Patrick Coffey, a lawyer for Provena, says the Dumas signed forms promising to pay their bills and "agreed that the charges were fair. We reject the notion of any legal basis or merit to their claims." But the state of Illinois revoked a tax exemption for a Provena hospital based on findings that the hospital wasn't providing enough charity care; Provena is appealing...
...Georgians tried to enlist government authorities to their cause but failed. Then Bagnato called an old medical-school friend from Mississippi, David Merideth. Also a lawyer, Merideth suggested talking to Scruggs and asked Bagnato to write up his findings, at that point encompassing dozens of hospitals, in a letter. "I knew we were onto something really good when I gave Dickie the letter and he kept studying it," Merideth recalled. Scruggs was outraged by the accumulation of hospital wealth and seemingly abusive collection efforts. "He wouldn't give it back to me for a while," says Merideth. "When he finally...
...dean of the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. Moreover, to folks who do physically and emotionally draining health-care work, the notion of hospitals' hoarding their wealth and targeting the poor is insulting. "There's a lot of outrage over the suits," says Stephen Weyl, a New Hampshire lawyer and hospital-industry consultant...