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- THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYEt Cetera
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- NO DEAL
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- Few dispute the horror of Rodney King's beating by four Los
- Angeles police officers last year. But assigning it a
- dollars-and-cents value has proved far more contentious. Last
- week King rejected the city council's first public offer -- a
- guaranteed $1.75 million, including a lump sum of $250,000 and
- a lifetime annuity of $75,000 -- to settle his lawsuit. The
- council, after a closed-door session, in turn spurned a
- settlement bid by King for $5.9 million. Next stop: the U.S.
- district court, where King's federal civil rights case will be
- tried.
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- TOO HASTY ON HASTINGS
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- The Senate improperly convicted former federal Judge Alcee
- Hastings for bribery in 1989. So said Judge Stanley Sporkin in
- Washington, who ruled that the Senate violated Hastings'
- constitutional rights by appointing a 12-member committee to
- hear the case, rather than holding a trial by the entire
- Senate. Sporkin's ruling does not restore Hastings, the first
- black federal judge in Florida's history, to the bench. But it
- will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court, while Hastings
- continues his run for Congress in Florida.
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