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Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
Scotsman: "A court has granted Chancellor Gerhard Schröder an order halting the publication of a crime novel in which a German leader is shot in Mr Schröder's home city, Hanover."
Next step: it's forbidden to even think about writing a book about a fictive killing of a politician. Which again proves that fiction rules over politics; politics is fiction.
4:01:47 PM 
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Mother Jones: "Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi litigator who took on and beat big tobacco, has declared war again. This time around he's targeted the non-profit hospital industry, unleashing a barrage of lawsuits challenging their business and accounting practices.
A team of consultants working under Scruggs' direction has built a mountain of evidence against 13 of the nation's largest non-profit hospital chains, including Advocate Health Care Network, Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), Baptist Health South Florida and Provena Health. The claims are revealed in 13 class action complaints filed Wednesday in various federal courts across the nation and obtained by Mother Jones. The suits provide a glimpse into the underbelly of the non-profit hospital industry, accusing Advocate and others of systematically defrauding the American public.
Scruggs says the legal argument behind the suits is a fairly simple one. 'A non-profit hospital, in order to obtain freedom from taxation, has to prove that they provide charity care.' The beneficiary of that care, he says, should be the poor and uninsured. But the suits' plaintiffs contend that non-profit hospitals have systematically reneged on their obligation, ignoring charity care in order to make - and keep - more money."
10:50:33 AM
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It's not him, it's the Demon in Bill Clinton who is to blame for his Lewinsky affair. Let's call him his 'little Willy'.
NY Times: "The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull - the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history."
This is Bill's famous Third Way in practice. 'Da Toid Way, Bill. Stick to it, babbo. Till now we got no beef from this big earner. You've done your piece o' work in Iraq, Bill. You're a hard-on with a suitcase now. Make a marriage with Dubya's mob, man, give us a gift.' (Mobspeak glossary)
10:37:25 AM
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CBC: "Thousands of the Soviet Jews who fled to Israel when the Soviet Union collapsed are beginning to return to Russia."
10:01:03 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Hetty Litjens.
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