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...Bill was "weathering controversies over gays in the military and his nominations for Attorney General." His nominations? The First Lady was intimately involved in the selection process, insistent that one of the top four Cabinet officers be a woman. These were, arguably, her nominations as much as his. Her account of the great health-insurance disaster is sketchy to the point of emaciation. She never even describes what her plan was or why she was so unwilling to compromise. It is defeated not on its merits or because of her stubbornness, she says, but because conservative thinker William Kristol convinces...
...Stewart and Bacanovic to explain the events of Dec. 27, 2001. Stewart was on her way to a vacation in Mexico, and Bacanovic--then off on his own holiday--had just learned that ImClone co-founder Sam Waksal wanted to sell all the ImClone shares in his Merrill Lynch account, worth $4.9 million. Bacanovic called Stewart's assistant and left the message "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward...
...NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL The best-selling, firsthand account of minimum-wage life...
...Until now. Since late April when a Guangzhou newspaper, the Southern Metropolis News, published a detailed account of Sun's case, China's media, academic circles and Internet chat rooms have been abuzz with demands for reform and even abolition of the system. Sun's status as a college-educated up-and-comer rather than an out-of-work farmhand has fueled widespread outrage. "You were imprisoned because you would not be a pet animal or a slave," read one of many eulogies to Sun posted on the Internet. Lending force to this outcry is the fact that China...
...change jobs," says Roddy Kohn, of pension advisers Kohn Cougar, "it's possible your next employer will operate a transfer club for pension benefits, and will be willing to take your pension." And don't forget health benefits. According to O.E.C.D. projections, by 2030 pension and health benefits could account for more than 25% of GDP in France and Germany, up from just over 17% five years ago. No wonder corporate health benefits are on the rise. In 1993 in the U.K., almost 3.8 million people were covered by company health insurance; by 2001, the number was 4.7 million. Simon...