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...letter, and she was right. I've worked at that community hospital for 20 years, and they finally did what so many of us in medicine have been thinking about doing for so long - they said, "No." They responded to yet another insurance-company rate decrease by refusing to accept it altogether. Hospitals can't afford to pay their nurses, buy medicines or give personal attention to each patient, if they're expected to treat so many, so fast, just to break even. Good for them, I thought. But, then, I looked at Mattie, and I looked...
...Many of the Al-Madinah girls willingly accept the limits, even when they chafe: "Allah comes before basketball, before a million dollars and before everything," says team captain Fatima Benfakiah, 18, who moved to New York from Algeria at age 2. Benfakiah admits that living with restrictions can be frustrating, at times - "It's not fair, but it is something you can get over because this life is not eternal; it is the afterlife that counts...
...here. So the running time is not the problem of this honorable, doomed effort; it's that so many scenes are repetitions of earlier ones. Che has to instill military discipline in his ragtag rebels in Cuba, then in Bolivia; in both places he has to decide whether to accept underage volunteers; in both, he gives his men a chance to quit before the decisive battles, where they are fired on by unseen regular soldiers and suffer the deaths of friends who've made their big speech or poignant impression moments before. And forgive me for asking, but with...
...Burma AID TRICKLES IN More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis left an estimated 134,000 dead or missing and 2.5 million homeless, Burma's ruling junta bowed to international pressure and agreed to accept substantial foreign aid, as long as it's funneled through ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asia Nations. The U.S. and U.N. have landed supply planes in the city of Rangoon but have not been able to directly reach the delta, hindering the much needed large-scale disbursement...
When Groucho Marx famously remarked that he'd never want to join a club that would accept him as a member, he probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis...