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...compensation by the Church. The frustration felt in parishes—not only in Massachusetts and Kentucky but all over America—is reaching a boiling point. The Church seems to think that the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 and the $10 million settlement of a lawsuit paid out to victims of abuse in Massachusetts dioceses is the end of the scandal, but justice still hasn’t been served...
...freedom, human rights and the alleviation of suffering all over the world. And quite often, as is predictable, a serious war or human-rights oppression is the fault of an unsavory character. To get to the heart of those issues, our policy has been to try to negotiate a settlement...
Sneddon, 63, who had prosecuted the 1993 case and was none too pleased by its settlement, has been dogged in trying to nab the star. On his HIStory album, Jackson responded to what he considered Sneddon's persecution tactics with the song DS, about a district attorney named Dom Sheldon: "He'll stop at nothing just to get his political say ... You think he brother with the K.K.K.?" When asked if he was trying to sabotage the singer's new CD, Sneddon snarked, "As if I'm into that kind of music...
...because he's thought by some legal analysts to be ready to bring other children to claim abuse and because the 12-year-old at the center of the case is, according to Sneddon, prepared to testify. A law enacted in the wake of the furor over the 1993 settlement makes it more difficult for an alleged perpetrator to pay off his victim in exchange for squelching his testimony. That should keep Jackson from offering money to his accuser and sandbagging the case...
...Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from acquiring insurers. The two sides have been fighting ever since, and in October, France rejected a $585 million settlement because it didn't give immunity to Pinault - who made a big profit on the deal - or former Crédit Lyonnais CEO Jean Peyrelevade. Pinault, who now owns Gucci, mounted a huge lobbying effort, including face-to-face meetings with President Jacques Chirac. Paris has now made a counter-offer...