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...They’re all going to play,” Harvard coach Sue Caples said. “Everyone on this team can contribute...
...airline-bailout package on Sept. 21. The idea was not just to avoid the political nightmare of victims' families' getting eviction notices but also to keep the economy from buckling under the weight of potential litigation. Thus anyone who receives money from the fund must waive the right to sue the airlines or the government. For the sake of the claimants and the economy, it was resolved that the fund would move quickly, with an application deadline of December...
...litigation waiver; life insurance must be deducted from any potential payout--were designed by Congress. But how much each family receives is at Feinberg's discretion. Claimants can appeal Feinberg's decision--to Feinberg or to one of 30 specially appointed hearing examiners--or they can reject it and sue, although Congress has stacked the deck against any lawsuit's succeeding. Congress also neglected to put a cap on how much Feinberg can give the families. (Feinberg expects to award a total of $4 billion to $6 billion.) "The absence of a cap," Feinberg says, "means that...
...Americans are especially bad at this because we are Americans, and catastrophes are not supposed to happen to us. Our legal culture, our political culture and our media culture all push us toward excessive caution by guaranteeing that any large disaster will produce an orgy of hindsight. Lawyers will sue, politicians will hold hearings, newspapers and newsmagazines will publish overexcited revelations about secret memos that could be interpreted as having warned of this if held up to the light at a certain angle...
Lynn (Shu Qi) rests her head against the high back of her porcelain bathtub and reminisces about her happy days of youth?before she became a cold-blooded killer. Her sister Sue (Zhao Wei), clad in terry cloth hot pants and a skimpy tank top, comes in to ask for career advice. She isn't satisfied being the computer genius of the criminal duo, and wants to do some killing too. Lynn scoffingly kicks her with a long, soapy leg, setting off a wet kung fu fight that is saved from going soft-porn only by judicious editing...