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...tobacco companies are predators, says American Medical Association President Lonnie Bristow, and smokers are the lambs. "It's time to end the silence of the lambs," Bristow said in describing a new report charging that for 30 years, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. hidevidence that nicotine was addictive. This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted to the report, a review of almost 10,000 pages of documents from the company. The JAMA report charges that lawyers for the firm routinely labeled internal research as "privileged" to avoid having to reveal the information...
Elizabeth Anne Williamson...
Profiles of attractive "'Cliffedwellers" werefrequent features, especially "Freshmanettes." Oneprofile of first-year Georganne Williamson wastitled "Southern Belle Takes Toll, WringsHarvardian Hearts; Gracious Georgane SweetensBrooks Tea." The caption of her picture read "HerDixieland charms thaw Cambridge frost...
...university last year may now make life uncomfortable for a few tobacco executives. Thursday, a San Francisco judge ruled that that the University of California San Francisco may release the documents, which reportedly showthat cigarette companies knew for decades that a link existed between smoking and cancer. Brown & Williamson tobacco company had claimed the papers were stolen and demanded their return. But Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollack wondered why the firm was so anxious: many of the documents, he noted, had already surfaced in congressional hearings and suits against tobacco companies by four states seeking to recover costs of health...
Under the heading "Gurus," an item in the January Esquire reported that HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and New Age writer Marianne Williamson were frequent lunch companions and that the author of A Woman's Worth had even tried her hand at presidential speechwriting. Last week the First Lady replied. "[Williams] is neither my guru nor my spiritual adviser," she wrote. Still, Clinton does admire Williamson. "She is a political supporter who has an intriguing view about popular culture." Clinton did not address the speechwriting question...