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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
M. Frederick Pritzker, Chairman of Brown Ruddick Freed & Gesmer, announced that its $178 million fee for work in Massachusetts' landmark settlement with the nation's largest tobacco firms is not enough and plans to litigate with the state for $300 million more. Pritzker stated that the $178 million was not an amount that his firm's 150 lawyers could "retire on." Sources: Boston Globe, 10 August 2001

"They Made Me Feel Like a Criminal": When Big Brother watches you, he's quite often watching the wrong person (Amy Herdy, St. Petersburg Times).
Theocracy Now: Bush is putting America under God's law (James Ridgeway, Village Voice).
Greens say Republicans crashed their party : In Washington state, Republicans are trying subversion instead of persuasion (Neil Modie, Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
Little of $246B Deal Fights Tobacco: Most states are not using their tobacco settlement windfall on tobacco control programs (Thomas Farragher, Boston Globe).
Philip Morris Czech Republic Study: the full text of the report that claimed that smoking deaths saved money for the Czech government (American Legacy Foundation).
In the Tank: The Commission to Strengthen Social Security might as well move to the Cato Institute (Ryan Lizza, The New Republic).

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