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...child goes on to report that the kids on his school "service" (the long Toyota vans that act as school buses for Tehran's students) have been chanting, "Pas rai e ma koojast?! Pas rai e ma koojast?!" (Then where is our vote?! Then where is our vote?!) I ask what the driver is doing while all this goes on and the kid tells me that the driver honks along. Honk honk-honk-honk! Pas rai e ma koojast?! Honk honk-honk-honk...
...some on Capitol Hill don't think a temporary measure goes far enough. On June 23, Florida Senator Bill Nelson and Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern introduced legislation, the Fairness to Surviving Spouses Act, that would nix the widow penalty for good. To leverage their message, they were joined by both Goukassian and another military widow, Diana Engstrom, whose husband was killed in Iraq in 2004 in a rocket-propelled-grenade attack. Engstrom, a Kosovo native, found out afterward that she, too, would be deported because she'd been married for less than the two years required for an immigrant spouse...
...said Kelley, who noted that in her area, staff workers, who have wide-ranging grasps of administrative expenses and operations, had not been consulted at all during the planning for this past year’s cost reductions. “I wish that Harvard would act in a more forthright manner,” she said...
...Helping organize the pushback against the drive for data has been former House whip and legendary Democratic operator Tony Coelho, an epileptic who helped write the Americans with Disabilities Act and now leads the Partnership to Improve Patient Care. The partnership is an odd coalition of the drug companies, devicemakers and medical specialists who stand to lose the most from evidence-based medicine, joined by a variety of patient groups (some of whom also receive industry funding) concerned about access to care. Coelho says he welcomes effectiveness research if it can help doctors and patients make more informed decisions...
...over the management of state broadcaster RAI. (Leading nightly news TG1 has been roundly criticized for its vague and misleading reports on the scandal.) Berlusconi's power goes beyond just the physical instruments of communication. He has perfected the art of politics as an around-the-clock magician's act. And in Italy, the only thing more difficult than trying to imagine how he can avoid disappearing is imagining what public life would be like without...