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...WORD NIGGER GETS YOU KICKED OFF most teams. But since Marge Schott owns the Cincinnati Reds, she's probably not going anywhere. In depositions from a lawsuit filed against Schott by a former employee, several former Reds executives allege that they heard Schott refer to two players as her "million-dollar niggers." She denies using the phrase but admits using the N word. There are also charges that Schott has a swastika armband at home, but she argues that it's "memorabilia...
...have become impatient with the pace of change and are pondering more dramatic measures. In recent months, legislators in California, Colorado and Kansas introduced bills that would have mandated specific medical school quotas. Schools that failed to graduate at least 50% of students in primary care would have faced million-dollar cutbacks in state funding. Although none of these measures passed, they serve as a warning. Americans are frustrated by the fragmentation of their health care and want someone -- either doctors or lawmakers -- to restore the balance...
...shocked over his failure to get a majority of the jury to convict on even one of the nine counts George is charged with, Walsh is consulting top legal eagles on whether to proceed. He's already feeling the heat from George supporters attacking the idea of another wasteful million-dollar trial. Besides, a second unsuccessful trial could undercut his last major effort, the trial of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, which begins...
...Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at PepsiCo and one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases brought by the families of other victims...
...yourself better -- as well as no better -- than the rest of us." A single American baseball player today signs contracts that will bring him as much money as 20,000 Laotians will earn from now till the end of the century. And the Olympics, with their multinational coverage and million-dollar endorsement possibilities, are hardly innocent of this...