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Assigning a monetary value to human life is something that is performed as a regular matter of business in society.  In the early 1970's Ford Motor Company made an economic decision not to add eleven dollars to the cost of a Pinto for an improvement that would have prevented the gas tank from exploding in rear end collisions.  It used a valuation of $200,000 per human life in its analysis, a figure that it derived from the government agency that was responsible for auto safety.  Life insurance is a contact that assigns a monetary value to a human life.  Juries...

Unlike all of the previous managed collapses and bailouts, this one would remove the distressed assets from Goldman's balance sheet, which would immediately make it much more profitable and cause its stock price to rocket upwards.

District Attorney Mike Nifong sent a letter Wednesday to the players' defense attorneys, who've asked whether he has used photographs to identify potential suspects. Nifong said he has talked to police about that point but is waiting for their written report. He said he's also awaiting a new set of DNA tests, and those results and any charges won't come before next week.

Based on statements made by Michael B. Nifong, the Durham County district attorney, the lawyers are bracing for him to bring a case to a grand jury that meets on Monday. That move, they said, would inevitably produce an indictment of a player on sexual assault charges, and perhaps an indictment of other players on charges of aiding and abetting the assault. An arrest warrant would be issued for any players who are indicted. After Monday, the grand jury here is not scheduled to meet again for two weeks.

“They say she was a dancer, but worked for an escort service,” the representative said. “Dancers work for entertainment services and there’s a difference. Why was she there without a bouncer? She went there with no one. She didn’t deserve it, but she was a fool,” the representative continued to say.

The Durham County district attorney said today that the woman who accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her at an off-campus party last month had identified at least one of them in a photo montage last week........... "There was no identification of any member of that lacrosse team until last week," the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, said at an informational meeting today attended by more than 400 people at North Carolina Central University, where the woman was a student. He was answering a question about why no one has been arrested.