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...what she was promised. "There are just too many sick women," Ralph Knowles, the plaintiffs' attorney in the class-action suit, announced today. "I didn't think it was going to be anything like that. If I did, we would never have agreed to the $4.25 billion." Discussions are underway to convince Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and other implant makers to add billions more to what is already the largest product-liability settlement in U.S. history. A partial analysis of claims finds that more than 70,000 women likely would be eligible to get money in the first wave...
...most concrete initiatives underway are a letter-writing campaign to Harvard Clubs across the nation, a meeting with Jewett during his office hours, a petition in Adams House and a rally on Tuesday...
...Henry Foster tried to salvage his troubled nomination to be Surgeon Generalas his Senate confirmation hearings got underway, pledging to "set the record straight." To Senators probing his views on abortion, he said: "I am a doctor who delivers babies." Foster also apologized to the Labor and Human Resources Committee for initially understating the number of abortions he had performed during his 40 years as an obstetrician, but said it was an "honest mistake" made without a complete review of the records. "There was never any intent to deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised...
...There's so much change underway at theSchool--if you look at publishing, if you look atexecutive education, if you look at the MBAprogram--obviously it would be easier for someonefrom the inside to have a sense of all that stuffand to come in running," says Cash, himself awidelymentioned inside candidate...
Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiropublicly apologized in the courtroom to police criminalist Dennis Fung and "all my friends in the Asian-American community" for sarcastic comments he made while handing out fortune cookies last week. Once the trial got underway, prosecutors began their attempt to rehabilitate Fung by screening time-coded videotape that shows that Fung was indeed givenblood samplesby Detective Philip Vannatter the evening after the murders and that Fung's assistant Andrea Mazzola carried the blood samples out of Nicole Simpson's home. The defense last week showed a videotape of its own to support their contention that...