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...ostracized: it must all be part of the divine plan. That kind of faith means never having to say you're sorry. Tiger Woods surely apologized more times during his 13-minute statement Friday than Bill has in 38 hour-long episodes. The closest he gets to an act of contrition is admitting, "I'm an imperfect person, I know that.... I've been tested, and failed." But apologize to Ben? "Apologize for what...
...this time the club is not being forced to act against its will, and members appear enthusiastic about the new policy. “It’s a great move,” Punchmaster Sam O. French ’12 told me, adding that he was “a big fan of democracy...
...addition, this move assumes that Liebermann is one to act rationally, or to care about his popularity in the first place. This may not be the case, since Lieberman is even now opposing reforms that he once avidly purported. In the 2000 presidential race, the then-vice presidential candidate supported the bi-partisan expansion of Medicare. He ran on the same platform again in his 2004 presidential bid. His past health-care reform proposals have ostracized both sides of the aisle, effectively killing his popularity. These proposals included such radical ideas as automatic health-coverage for all American children...
...afraid to walk in with a series of positive ideas and to work with Democrats on legislation in a genuinely bipartisan fashion. Some GOP partisans so deeply distrust Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid that they assume even meeting with them is an act of betrayal. But Republicans should have confidence that they can always say no to bad ideas. Indeed, they should be open to the possibility of finding supportable measures that would be good for the country and totally compatible with their values...
...premiums paying claims, a threshold that's lower, for example, than those in Washington, New York and New Jersey. California is also what's known as a "file and use state," meaning insurers can increase rates in the individual market without state approval. The state can later act to rein in rates or revoke an insurer's license, but this rarely happens. Most states, on the other hand, are "prior approval states," in which insurers need state permission to increase rates in the market. (See the top 10 jarring health care reform...