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...what's good business for the software industry is nonsense for journalism--as the folks who run Microsoft's news Website quickly realized. An MSNBC report on the Oklahoma City bombing, for example, would have drawn a prohibitive rating in the violence department...
...Paso, scooping up medical files by the truckload. Among other things, the feds sought evidence that Columbia, which treats some 125,000 patients a day, had overcharged Medicare by millions of dollars. Two weeks ago, federal agents seized documents from 31 Columbia locations in six states (Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). By last week, agencies ranging from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service to the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services had obtained more than 35 warrants that target the company...
...July 9 Armey, DeLay, Boehner and Paxon gathered for the first of several secret meetings to discuss the brewing rebellion. The next night, DeLay met with 20 rebels in the offices of Oklahoma's Steve Largent. At first, DeLay was coy. Then he warned that if the rebels were going to act, they had better do so quickly, because their plot was about to leak. "Is everybody prepared to go ahead with this?" he asked. At that point, Indiana's Mark Souder turned the question around. "Are you with us?" According to several participants, DeLay was clearly speaking...
...Telecommunications Act itself. To qualify for the long-distance game, the Bells have to demonstrate that their home markets are open to competition. How? By fulfilling 14 separate terms of compliance. So far, none has. When regulators rejected SBC's application to provide long-distance service in Oklahoma last month, the company filed a suit charging that the law unfairly discriminates against the Bells. "If the FCC would go ahead and let us into the long-distance business, that would stir competition [in local service] faster than anything," says Roger Flynt, a group president for BellSouth...
...have to be a Floridian to find instructive contrasts to the proposed tobacco settlement. In Oklahoma earlier this year, a 38-year-old father of three was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana in his basement. (That's 70 years for possession alone.) Which suggests that the best strategy for legalizing marijuana might be to criminalize tobacco--and then just wait for the sentences for possession of smokable substances to drop, say, from 93 years in prison to 10 minutes of community service...