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Foster is Medicare’s chief actuary, the government’s top nonpartisan analyst of Medicare costs. An award-winning mathematician with—as The New York Times recently described it—a “reputation for being careful in his assessments,” Foster estimated (after “dozens and dozens of analyses”) that Bush’s prescription drug benefit bill would cost about $150 billion more over 10 years than the White House told Congress...
...about June 13, according to The Washington Post, Foster says he told Thomas A. Scully, the Bush-appointed Medicare administrator, that the White House numbers were many billions off the mark. Foster also says he sent his calculations to Doug Badger, the administration’s top health policy analyst, and to executives within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Health and Human Services...
...Spanish citizens of Indian origin were also questioned by the police. According to a Spanish government official, at least two and possibly all four of the Indians ran a shop in Madrid where they sold--not always legally--prepaid SIM cards. Spanish defense analyst Rafael Bardaji suggests they may have been unwitting collaborators. "Perhaps the poor chaps were only the people who prepared the illegal phones," he says. "The question is, to whom did they sell the phones...
...wins, he will have a clearer mandate. This would put Washington in a tight spot. China, a nuclear power, has vowed to block independence by force if necessary, and the U.S. could not stand idly by if that happened. "The possibility of escalation over Taiwan," says James Mulvenon, an analyst at the Rand Corp., "is higher than over North Korea...
...next play, but he's up against a pair of other big Man U shareholders, Irish tycoons John Magnier and J.P. McManus. The two have recently increased their combined stake to about 29%. "It's extremely unlikely someone would buy the team," says Andrew Lee, an equity analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London, pointing to the stock's rich price, recently 2.67, which makes the team worth about $1.3 billion. Then again, he says, "you can never discount someone with more money than sense who wants to satisfy his hobby...