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...there was nothing unusual about the Oct. 6 telephone call between White House health-care boss Nancy-Ann DeParle and Karen Ignagni, the leading medical-insurance lobbyist in Washington. The two women have known each other for years and often speak several times a week. Though Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), has long been leery of - and at other times downright hostile to - the health-care bills moving through Congress, an uneasy truce was holding between the insurers and a White House bent on reform. But just barely: when DeParle and a Senate aide asked Ignagni...
Paras D. Bhayani ’09, a Teach for America corps member in Chicago, was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson in 2008. He previously covered both the Cambridge Public Schools and the 2007 city council and school committee elections...
...represent a long-term solution to a potentially recurring problem. Without long-term and thoughtful policy supporting these pay cuts, what’s past will likely be prologue. There are real and persistent problems in the current system, and if the current administration is genuinely interested in securing America against economic declines of this magnitude in the future, it must engage the problem with long-term regulatory focus in mind...
When nominating candidates, the CPL searches for individuals who set direction, work to achieve tangible results, and cultivate a culture of growth and frank communication within a given organization, according to Otis-Cote. The individuals’ accomplishments must impact America and have occurred in the past year and a half, she added...
This lack of contrition has led armchair psychologists, and not a few former colleagues, to label Blagojevich a megalomaniac, a textbook narcissist, a poster boy for America's coarse and craven political culture. Blagojevich calls himself a victim - with one caveat. "If I'm lying to you," he says, "then I'm a sociopath...