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They may have been united by a love for country music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement. The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy task of calculating the value of a life based on how much victims earned, the gravity of survivors' wounds and the hazy concepts of pain, suffering and emotional distress. "It is a cold, mathematical calculation," said attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has administered payouts for the nation's highest-profile tragedies but isn't involved in the Las Vegas settlement.
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