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Facing a double explosion of rate increases for liability insurance and lawsuits that seek compensation for personal injuries, 16 state legislatures have reacted by placing limits on the damages that courts can award. In Colorado and Florida, the new laws went into effect on July 1. But just under the deadline, long lines of lawyers formed in both states last week to file suits. On Monday fully 1,000 suits were launched in Denver's district court; 100 would be normal. A record 643 suits were filed in Miami's Dade County courthouse on the same day, almost three times...
Kalb also said the U.S. government "reserved its legal right to seek extradition of the hijackers once all Italian legal proceedings, including appeals, are ended...
...Others seek to join non-performance dance professions such as dance therapy or choreography. Says Stirling, "Some are very good dancers. They're very much into it. Some people are experienced, very cosmopolitan." Yet others are, as Keller--who is considering dance therapy as a career--says, "here just because it is a fun thing to do. The summer is really like playing for a lot of people...
...Democratic Party are now willing to confront the topic of the underclass and think it could work to their political advantage. "If we approach the social question correctly," Cuomo noted, "we will seize the opportunity Reagan has given us." A common theme was that the Democrats must seek effective ways to improve the plight of the poor while not clinging to expensive programs that have not proved helpful. "What worked in 1966 may not work in 1986," said Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, a black who chairs the House Budget Committee. "Saying that is not liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican...
...literate yet authoritative case studies by Neurologist Oliver Sacks, 52, has been on bestseller lists across the country these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and people," says Sacks, who teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault of fame. "There are too many letters and phone calls," he laments. "After a while I long...