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Without a cap on non-economic damages we?d be creating an economic windfall for trial lawyers, who keep 40 percent of awards for themselves. It should come as no surprise that the nation?s trial lawyers are pushing for the Kennedy-Edwards bill regardless of its impact on the cost of health care for working families. We also prefer to keep those cases in federal court, where they are currently heard, as opposed to subjecting plans to 50 widely varying interpretations of law that would further drive up costs to Americans...
...Bush made clear from the outset that he's going to build a missile shield regardless, which left the Europeans no room to imagine that Washington could be dissuaded. Of course, the acid test of that position will come in Russia's response, but Bush's approach appears to have worked with the Europeans. They're now resigned to the U.S. building it, and if at Wednesday's meeting with NATO leaders the key European players didn't exactly embrace Bush's concept, they at least began talking about the need for a new strategic framework to confront new threats...
...already seen 10 Prime Ministers. King Birendra ruled Nepal as an absolute monarch until 1990, when he was forced by violent protests to step down in favor of a constitutional monarchy. But critics have assailed the new democratic values, saying they encourage people to do whatever feels right, regardless of the consequences: dump the Prime Minister, take a bribe, kiss your partner before marriage. Indeed, corruption scandals plague the current government of Girija Prasad Koirala. If the monarchy were still absolute, the critics griped, then the traditional values would prevail...
...April, Grogan said the issue would not be reopened, regardless of the number of student actions aimed at Corporation members...
...suited Arafat's immediate agenda, the intifada was also viewed by many observers of Palestinian politics as an outpouring of anger against the Palestinian Authority. And many grassroots leaders of the uprising have made clear that they have no interest in a return to the negotiating table, regardless of Arafat's own intentions...