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...Iraq - tried to present a common front, but didn't quite pull it off. "We all want to see a stable Iraq," said Blair, struggling to put the best face on things. "We all know there must be a key role for the United Nations." Chirac was more blunt. "We don't entirely agree on the means or the timetable," he said. Schröder chimed in: "There are differences." France and Germany have offered to help train Iraqi police at facilities outside Iraq, but both want power handed over quickly to the Iraqis; Blair agrees with the U.S. that...
...charges higher prices to its most vulnerable customers. Medicare recipients without supplemental insurance are already charged far more than anyone else, because they pay for their drugs out-of-pocket and have nobody to bargain on their behalf. Other government and private health plans use their purchasing power to blunt drug prices. They also steer patients toward cost-effective drugs by refusing to pay full freight for expensive brand-name drugs, whose claims to extra effectiveness are often dubious...
...subject of meditation. "He would not have used such a flip, disrespectful tone in an article on Christian or Jewish ritual," wrote a religion professor from Georgia. Asked a minister from Maine: "Why the sarcasm? What was Stein afraid of?" And a New Yorker offered a brief, blunt primer on meditation: "The goal is to calm the mind enough that you don't need to make really lame jokes...
...them when they violate the explicit Scripture that the Anglican Church subscribes to," said Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral Church in Nairobi, Kenya. "It's outrageous and uncalled for." Bishop Lim Cheng Ean, leader of the Anglican Church of West Malaysia, was only a bit less blunt: "Practicing homosexuality is culturally and legally not acceptable here." He indicated that the bishops in the nine-nation Southeast Asian province may consider severing relations with the U.S. church when they meet this week...
...Most people, when they’re first introduced to it, are astonished by her style,” says SSP Assistant Dean Keith Moon, who has worked with Hewitt for a total of eight summers. “She is blunt, and she is spare with her language. She says what she thinks needs to be said, and I think that is sometimes jarring for folks around...