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A Conversation With BP's Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsKenneth Feinberg, the pay czar for BP's oil spill victims' compensation fund, will be back in the news this week and next as he works through another round of meetings with spill victims and public officials along the Gulf Coast. But even though Feinberg has paid out almost $3 billion to 168,000 claimants, don't expect to read about any love-fests. The town of Grand Isle, La., prepared for its session with the 65-year-old lawyer by gathering signatures on a petition that asks for Feinberg to be fired. In the four months that Feinberg has been handing out checks from BP's $20 billion fund, he ...
Father Fights to Expose Cancer Cluster in Maryland
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Aug. 21) -- Two and a half years ago, Randy White's daughter Kristen was diagnosed with brain cancer. She went through chemo, radiation and three brain biopsies, but nothing worked. Just 30 years old, she died in his house, in his arms. "She was never sick a day in her life" before the cancer, White told AOL News. Just two months after he had buried Kristen, White's other daughter, Angie, was diagnosed with a highly abnormal stomach cancer, which doctors were able to successfully remove. But six weeks later, his ex-wife took a fall that revealed an advanced renal cell cancer. According to ...
Agent Orange Cleanup: A Priority for Hillary Clinton in Vietnam
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe last stop on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Asian tour this week is Vietnam, where she will discuss among other things an enduring remnant of the war, the after-effects of Agent Orange. The U.S. government belatedly recognized the impact of the deadly defoliant on American troops, but has resisted accepting responsibility for the damage the chemical inflicted on the Vietnamese with birth defects still evident decades after the end of the war. Clinton, who arrives in Vietnam Thursday, is expected to address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam to encourage support for a $300 ...
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