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Patrick drew flak from his rivals for drawing a $350,000 salary for serving on the board of Ameriquest, a subprime lender that had been sued by 49 state attorneys general and had closed nine of its Massachusetts offices. Patrick defended his conduct, saying that he had been joined the...
DIED. Vashti McCollum, 93, Illinois housewife and humanist (a term she preferred to atheist) whose objections to religion classes at her son's school led to a landmark 1948 Supreme Court ruling protecting separation of church and state in public education; in Champaign, Ill. After her son decided he did...
If Cagney embodied the sass and snarl of newly urbanized America, Bette Davis represented the assertive, neurotic ur-bitch. She came to Warners in 1931, making five to seven films a year and, like Cagney, campaigning for better parts. (She made her first big impression, in Of Human Bondage, on...
So what's a corporate lawyer doing atop the world's largest drug company? Saving it in court. The company is facing a flood of legal challenges. Among them: drugmaker Novo Nordisk recently claimed patent infringements for Pfizer's upcoming inhaled-insulin drug, Exubera, and Pfizer is being sued over...
T: Public Citizen has sued the Bush Administration to require black boxes in trucks. What's the big deal?