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...erased as well. The doctors who fought Hillary's health plan so fiercely in 1994, then sided with Newt Gingrich on Medicare in 1995, are now allied not only with Clinton but also with their sworn enemies, the trial lawyers. Both groups want to give patients the ability to sue their health plans for improper treatment. And the neat ideological divide between pro-business Republicans and populist Democrats is breaking down as well: some of the most conservative Republicans, including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Steve Largent of Oklahoma, are on record favoring some of the most liberal legislation...
...loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed in the Jonesboro, Ark., school massacre are preparing a lawsuit against a gunmaker for not including a trigger lock. And the mayors of Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities may sue to recover the cost gun crimes add to city budgets...
...industry, these suits defy established law and basic fairness. Guns are legal to manufacture and safe when used properly. It isn't their fault, the manufacturers say, that criminals buy their products and use them to shoot people. "You don't sue General Motors when someone drives drunk and hurts someone," says Smith & Wesson lawyer Anne Kimball. The gun manufacturers say that going after them distracts from the real problems: crime and social breakdown...
...concern about the shutting out of smaller businesses. Indeed, the victory for vendors and consumers could well be the festival's loss. The 6,000 Sara Lee slices typically sold at the festival are donated by the company, with proceeds funneled back to the festival organization. But next week Sue Musser of Selkirk's market will be eagerly serving customers for the first time. She predicts that her pie sales will double to 1,200, thanks to pastry reform. (Whole-pie sales were always allowed, but really, who wants to lug around a 10-in. tin while you're strolling...
...personal liberties. Chinese citizens today lead remarkably free lives, as masters of their own fates and fortunes. Satellite dishes and the Internet beam in unauthorized information undreamed of a few years ago. Beijing has slowly been enshrining into law such individual prerogatives as property protection and the right to sue. The Chinese can even mock their leaders and criticize government policies--in the privacy of their homes. Beijing, in theory, opened itself up to international monitoring when it signed one of two key U.N. covenants on human rights last October and pledged to sign the other soon. "The unanswered question...