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• Homogenizing homosexuality: using techniques that allow a tiny minority to gain power over a complacent majority, homosexual activists are leading Massachusetts down into a moral abyss

  - 2005-11-28

  The homosexual lobby once argued that state anti-sodomy laws across the nation should be repealed, on the basis that the state should not interfere "in the privacy of the bedroom." But since their 2003 Lawrence v. Texas victory striking down state anti-sodomy laws, that argument has fallen by the wayside,...

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• Alito: Recusal promise was too 'restrictive'

  - 2005-11-11

  WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday that he was "unduly restrictive" when he promised the Senate 15 years ago to remove himself from court cases involving two firms in which he has investments. When the Senate was considering Alito's nomination to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court...

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• Developer to keep stake in Boston-area office towers.

  - 2004-12-18

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 18--Developer Donald J. Chiofaro will hang onto partial ownership of the two International Place office towers under an agreement reached yesterday in his high-profile bankruptcy case. ...

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• New Hampshire utility to make $280,000 payment to shareholders.

  - 2004-12-17

  By Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--CONCORD, N.H. -- In an unusual settlement to a lengthy investigation of the former chief executive of one of New Hampshire's largest utilities, state and federal regulators yesterday said Pennichuck...

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• Hospital company settles fraud claims against Ashland, Mass., center.

  - 2004-12-16

  By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--State and federal investigators said a day treatment center in Ashland for disabled people overcharged the government Medicaid program by exaggerating clients' disabilities to earn bigger payments. ...

  Tags: Boston Globe, disability, fraud, Government, HEALTHCARE, Litigation, Medicaid, Tenet Healthcare Corp.

• As Kurds return to oil-rich city, a fragile ethnic detente emerges.

  - 2004-12-14

  By Thanassis Cambanis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 14--KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hassan Mohammed Amin brought his seven children to a 200-square-yard patch of mud and set up home on the edge of this city in August as part of...

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• Ten more partners join exodus at Boston law firm.

  - 2004-12-08

  By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Ten more partners of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault gave their notice last weekend, the Boston law firm confirmed yesterday, prompting speculation across the city's legal community about the future of a...

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• Roxbury, Mass., health clinic settles in dispute over English-first rule.

  - 2004-12-08

  By Johnny Diaz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Whittier Street Health Center announced a settlement yesterday with several Hispanic employees who fought an English-first policy at the Roxbury clinic. Mediated by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

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• Boston law firm must pay up to $9.3 million in dairy suit.

  - 2004-12-07

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--A state judge has ordered the Boston law firm of Rubin and Rudman to pay $7.2 million plus as much as $2.1 million more in attorneys fees to settle charges that it...

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• TAP Pharmaceutical agrees to $150 million settlement.

  - 2004-12-02

  By Alice Dembner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--TAP Pharmaceutical Products has agreed to pay $150 million to consumers and private insurers to settle claims they overpaid for its drug Lupron because the company artificially inflated the price. ...

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