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...agitate for Party causes. He also worked on some B movies. On Winter Carnival (1939), a fictionalizing of the annual Dartmouth frolic, his co writer was F. Scott Fitzgerald, cadging for jobs in California after the drying up of his first act as the chronicler of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald would die in 1940, leaving his Hollywood novel The Last Tycoon famously unfinished. Schulberg took the inside-movies notion, ran with it and produced What Makes Sammy...
...prevent illness at any age...
...constituted "fair use" of the copyrighted material, but Gertner rejected the argument early Monday morning before the trial started. The defense then attempted to portray Tenenbaum as a "young child" exploring the boundaries of a digital world, while framing the recording industry's recent struggles as a "coming of age story" that parallels technological advances...
Insurance companies have always been an effective villain in the health-care-reform debate, but this year the industry thought things might be different. Recognizing the growing sentiment for some kind of change and fully aware that universal coverage would help bulk up their rolls as baby boomers age into the Medicare system, private insurers early on declared their (albeit qualified) support for President Obama's health-reform effort. So when word came last month that the Democrats were drawing up a new public-relations battle plan, the insurance companies were sent reeling - and seemed to be caught off-guard...
...Insurers have agreed to discontinue practices like turning down customers in the individual and small-group market who have expensive pre-existing conditions and basing premium rates on health status and gender. But one variable that will persist is age, since older enrollees represent more health risks than younger enrollees, and insurers are doing their best to retain the most flexibility in that area. Current reform legislation in the House and the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee would allow insurers to vary premiums on the basis of age only by a factor of two, meaning insurers would...