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...SETTLEMENT REACHED. By ABNER LOUIMA, 33, victim in a notorious case of police brutality in which he was sodomized with a broken broomstick in a Brooklyn-precinct bathroom in 1997; and the N.Y.P.D.; for $8.75 million. Louima's take will be tax-free, but his lawyers, including Johnnie Cochran, will share $3 million...
...SETTLEMENT REACHED. By the family of the late CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY and sister LAUREN BESSETTE; with the estate of JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.; for a reported $15 million; in New York City. The sisters' parents, Ann Freeman and ex-husband William Bessette, agreed to the settlement offer just before a July 16 deadline for filing a wrongful-death suit. Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were killed July 16, 1999, when a plane piloted by Kennedy went down in the ocean just off Martha's Vineyard...
...Then there's that little matter of the 25-year, $206 billion settlement that the four largest tobacco firms reached with 46 states in 1998. The states were suing to recoup the Medicare dollars spent on ailing smokers. But what if smokers had been actually saving them money over the years by dying young...
...unrecognizable without their centuries-old coating of chalky, swirling, "Don't touch it dear" pigeon guano. But London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone has declared war on the square's infamous winged residents. Livingstone's plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches...
...generators were publicly philosophical about Wagner's mixed bag, and seem resigned to the fact that the law always tries to take a bite. But as Davis gets his lawyers together at the border, they must know that Davis isn't after a negotiated settlement - he wants to hit them for the whole $20 billion, total surrender, with all the voters watching...