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...BLESS MISS AMERICA...
...Medica facing possible bankruptcy, one of its U.S. executives rang his buddy Joe Cunningham, a physician prominent in Texas, to brainstorm. "My basic idea," Cunningham says, "was to get somebody who thinks like a plaintiff and see how they would respond to this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases, and to everyone...
...soccer gives me more pleasure. I train kids and give soccer clinics because I miss playing. My wife will say, "What were you shouting about last night in your sleep?" I'll say, "About scoring a goal." At 60, I still dream about playing...
...gives us a gift. But to perfect it, you have to work. You miss out on so much. You can't go to parties, to discos, stay up late. It is hard to keep playing at the same level. You suffer a lot. I think I was one of the few who played more than 20 years at the same level. That's why I am Pele. We have only one Frank Sinatra, only one Beethoven, only one Pele...
...crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos. The war zone is a shrine, and a circus. The funerals are coming faster now, 16 on Saturday alone; the mayor tried to send an official to each one. Elsewhere, friends get together...