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...Scalia dissented, saying "both types of damages are 'received on account of the personal injury.'" The decision came in the case of O'Gilvie vs. U.S., where the family of Betty O'Gilvie, who died of toxic shock syndrome, won $10 million in punitive damages from International Playtex, the maker of the tampons used by Mrs. O'Gilvie. Tuesday's decisions upheld rulings that forced the family to pay about $1.3 million in federal taxes on that amount...
...After all, Oxford portrays itself as little more than a passive order taker for customers who make their own investment decisions. In fact, Oxford customers can have their own "personal" brokers, and some of the brokers steer clients to specific stocks, especially stocks in which Oxford is a market maker, since the firm makes much bigger profits that way. (A market maker can sell out of its own inventory, rather than as a middleman between buyer and seller.) Brokers have every incentive to recommend such stocks because part of their compensation comes from the "spread"--the difference between the price...
...national sample without a margin for error, the ultimate swing voter who always veers in the popular direction. He's a die-hard Democrat, a Main Street Republican, an ornery independent, a Reagan Democrat, a Rockefeller Republican. He is the one voter every pollster, every ad maker, every candidate seeks to speak to--John Q. Public...
Dunlap, 59, is a talkative, roll-up-the-sleeves corporate turnaround specialist who burst onto the scene with a remarkably short, lucrative and controversial tour as CEO of venerable Scott Paper in 1994 and '95. The maker of Viva and ScotTowels asked him to shake things up. So Dunlap sold billions of dollars in assets, chopped 35% of the work force, paid down debt and refocused the firm. By the time Scott was sold to Kimberly-Clark late last year, its stock had tripled, and Dunlap, via generous stock options and grants, had tucked away $100 million for himself...
Gejdenson faces a rematch with Edward Munster, who almost won in 1994. He represents a district that has grown from quaint Yankee workshops to high-tech industry: the Electric Boat Co., maker of the Sea Wolf nuclear submarine, provides many of its jobs. Gejdenson is against the recently proposed Medicare reform, saying it cuts spending to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts for the wealthy. He also supports mandatory life sentences for third-time violent felons...