HOT ON THE HEELS OF THE CARNAGE IN Littleton, Colorado, President Clinton has proposed a grab bag of new gun-control measures-- never mind that they wouldn't have stopped the Littleton murders, whose perpetrators broke a dozen laws already on the books. An unspeakable event rocks the public, and…

WHAT A CAST OF CHARACTERS! Lumbering tobacco companies cowed into submission by 40 Medicaid recovery suits rigged to deny them any chance to defend themselves. Politically ambitious attorneys general out to replenish their states' depleted Medicaid coffers without raising taxes. Private…