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...first day of the rest of her life--last Wednesday, when she flew from Washington to upstate New York to begin the obligatory "exploratory" phase of her campaign for the U.S. Senate--Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered her motorcade to stop just outside the Binghamton airport. She hopped out of her van and, as a look of uh-oh, here-we-go flickered across the face of one of her Secret Service agents, plunged into a crowd of 50 well-wishers--the first spontaneous mosh-pit moment of Clinton's strange and improbable proto-campaign. She hugged children, signed autographs, posed...
...local experts and average folks in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Utica, Rome and Syracuse. The self-effacing, studious pose is supposed to buy time and get people accustomed to a startling sight: the first First Lady ever to run for office, doing so while her husband still occupies his. But this phase of her campaign, which will involve two- or three-day jaunts around New York most weeks through the summer and fall, is designed to accomplish an array of other objectives...
Each side can be grateful it's over. Disney gets a public relations ogre off its back at a time when its fortunes are lagging. Also, it is spared the final phase of the trial, in which Eisner would have had to counter Katzenberg's estimate of future revenue by poor-mouthing the company's prospects. And Katzenberg gets a nice bundle--if not the $580 million he wanted. No dollar figure was disclosed, but the educated guess was around $250 million, including the $117 million Katzenberg has already received. The sum is to be paid within a year, giving...
...Florida lawsuit, representing as many as 500,000 smokers, now enters the damages phase, seeking up to $200 billion. And that's just one state. The verdict could give a boost to more than 60 class actions pending across the U.S. Says Stanford law school professor Robert Rabin: "The industry's fear all along has been catastrophic liability in one of these aggregate cases, where thousands of claims are tied together...
...first phase of the Florida trial took eight months and involved more than 39,000 documents. But the plaintiffs' lawyers kept it simple. Cigarettes are addictive and dangerous, they told the jury. The industry has manipulated nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive, they argued, and misrepresented the risks. "This didn't require any grand or innovative legal strategy, because the facts about the industry's behavior were bad enough," says University of Miami law professor Clark Freshman...