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Investigators admit that the Hare Krishnas' penchant for secrecy will make it hard to find out what goes on in the inner sanctum. Still, according to U.S. Attorney Kolibash, the authorities will have more leverage when the grand jury takes over the probe. He adds that he is determined to find out "who calls the shots." As Steve Bryant's end attests, that is not merely a figure of speech...
...order to show us the other, niceguy side of Hoskins' character, we meet his daughter who grows to love him through a series of secret meetings, and his best friend, a jovial mechanic with eccentric marketing ideas and a penchant for stories of the underworld. George tells his friend stories of his own life, pretending that he has invented them. These relationships are completely gratuitous to the film's plotline, and heighten your sneaky feeling that Mona Lisa is little more than a star-vehicle for Hoskins...
Cardiologist Felix Balasco was the pacemaker king of Rhode Island. In the 1970s he implanted more of the devices than any other doctor in the state--a practice that helped him rake in more than $100,000 a year from Medicare patients alone. Balasco's penchant for pacemakers was well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow...
There are comments Green could add ("Your overweening self-pity. Your penchant for purple prose"). When Pierce flies back to New York for a Christmas visit with his family, he is secretly affronted by their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
...million Americans who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability or personal-injury lawsuits. Doctors who subscribe to its $150-a-year Physician's Alert service can call a special toll-free number, give a prospective patient's name, and within 25 seconds find out if the individual has a penchant for filing lawsuits and ought to be handled with care. This summer Docketsearch plans to expand its listings to include records of bankruptcies, tax liens and workers' compensation claims. "We have the capability of becoming a one-stop national resource," says President Michael Eckstein. "It becomes a very powerful tool...