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Better Off Dead?

From the May 2002 Print Edition

In my favorite movie, George Bailey falls under the terrible illusion that everyone around him would be better off if he had never even been born. To show him how tragically misguided he is, his guardian angel Clarence shows him what the world would be like without him, and”I don’t think . . . . Continue Reading »

Better Off Dead?

From the May 2002 Print Edition

In 2002, a plaintiff’s attorney might get to George quicker than an angel. That’s what I gather, anyway, from a recent edition of a local legal newspaper. In it there is an advertisement by a law firm trumpeting the multimillion-dollar settlements it has won for people willing to claim . . . . Continue Reading »