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Roger Greaves, Health Net's chief executive, was fighting a battle of his own against what he calls the "cancer" of a tactical lawsuit. His company had drawn the attention of Dr. Malik M. Hasan, founder and chief executive officer of QualMed, a Pueblo, Colorado, managed-care company that owned an HMO that competed against Health Net in Northern California. To best grasp Hasan's delight in bold business maneuvers, one need only know that as a young medical student in Pakistan in the late 1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights...
...Hasan, in his Pueblo office--a cavern of polished wood, purple curtains and gleaming chandeliers--concedes that his primary motivation was to force Greaves into a merger, but second, if Greaves still refused, to force Health Net to pay far more into its shadow foundation and thereby reduce the capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...
...until political turmoil and negative publicity shut down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute is found to have AIDS," says Peter Racine, a counselor who works with Honduran street children in Tegucigalpa, "they send her away to a smaller pueblo, where she continues to work." In Berlin, German streetwalkers are complaining about Polish women pouring into the city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home in a few months. Raised as Catholics...
Call it another cover-up. Love bites (hickeys) may bruise skin. But at the Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, they apparently also bruise sensibilities. So much so that the Brawley, California, health company has banned hickeys from sight. Officials say they took the action after six months of complaints from patients and staff that too many employees -- sometimes four or five a day -- were coming in with telltale marks visible on their neck. Employees who refuse to disguise evidence of their passions will be sent home and docked...
Repatriating the War Gods--with Joe Dishta, head councilperson of the pueblo of Zuni. In the Peabody Museum room 14A at 11 Divinity Ave. at 8p.m. A reception will follow in the Hall of the North American Indian...