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...after years of threatened suits, failed congressional bills and endless negotiations, 46 states signed onto a national settlement with the big tobacco corporations worth $206 billion. The money would be paid out over several years to the states, which had been forced to bear much of the health care costs of treating addicted smokers. In return, the tobacco companies were freed from the threat of endless, potentially bankrupting lawsuits. The states had sold the idea to voters with the understanding that this money would be used to care for ill smokers and prevent more kids from getting hooked...
...Here's a case in point: Ohio had a budget deficit last January, one of the first warning signs that the economy was slowing down. While trying to fill the hole, Governor Bob Taft and the state legislature held onto $240 million from the settlement that was supposed to go to the state's Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Foundation. The organization funds community, hospital and school programs to fight smoking, especially among kids - exactly what the tobacco money was supposed to being for. The foundation only spends interest from its fund, and it will still dole out $48 million...
...city is now negotiating settlement of a racial-profiling suit against the police, filed before the riot. A proposal for new policies and procedures is expected early next year. The cops are also considering changes based on an analysis by the Justice Department. Among the areas under review: training, record keeping and use of force...
...attack itself was disturbing enough. As an Israeli bus approached Emmanuel, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, a band of Palestinian guerrillas detonated two roadside bombs. When passengers fled the stricken vehicle, the militants gunned them down and flung grenades in their direction. Ten civilians were killed in the assault, and 30 were injured...
Hamas and groups associated with Arafat have developed increasingly close links since the collapse of the Camp David peace talks in the summer of 2000. After rejecting Israel's offer for a final settlement, Arafat returned home to encourage a new intifadeh, or uprising. Once the promise of a negotiated settlement with Israel faded, there was no longer a major ideological division between Arafat's secular nationalists and the Islamists, who reject any accommodation with Israel...