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...company turned a deaf ear to the protests of my medical team--my gynecologist, radiologist and surgeon. In the end I canceled my policy, preferring to be uninsured rather than pay for a worthless plan. Under Florida law, I was entitled to nothing more than an internal review by the insurer--I couldn't sue in state court. But if the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patient Protection bill becomes law in something close to its current form, it would let me sue. (The alternative Breaux-Frist-Jeffords bill would allow a lawsuit but put more obstacles in the way.) I might...
Meanwhile, the entire analyst community is under siege, essentially charged with fueling the irrational ascent of worthless stock via questionable buy recommendations that enriched analysts and their firms. Internet pinups Meeker at Morgan Stanley and Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch each earned about $15 million for their bullishness in 1999--while those who listened paid dearly. Now we demand accountability...
Despite the talk, Manny Ramirez will not hit .400, Albert Pujols will not hit 70 homeruns, Pedro Martinez will not get 30 wins, and the New York Yankees will win this year’s World Series after dealing worthless prospects for four free agent-to-be superstars at the trade deadline...
...continues. Earlier this month, seven gay and lesbian couples in Massachusetts filed a lawsuit for the right to marry. So far, more than 30 states have passed "defense-of-marriage laws," which state that same-sex unions sanctioned elsewhere are null and void. Yet even though the licenses are worthless in their home states, for many gay couples making it legal in Vermont is better than nothing at all. "You wait all your life for something like that," says Vivienne Armstrong, a nurse from Dallas who has been with her partner Louise Young for 30 years. "We would have crawled...
...calls made by Arafat - under pressure from Washington - to curb Palestinian attacks have been ignored, even flouted, by his followers. Arafat may be politically unable to embrace a cease-fire if its terms make the sacrifices his intifada has demanded of ordinary Palestinians over the past eight months seem worthless. And while the Israelis constantly promise to ease the load on ordinary Palestinians and isolate the militants, such promises have meant very little on the ground, where poverty, rage and despair continues to drive Palestinians into the arms of Hamas, Hizballah and other forces more radical than Arafat...