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...disability after their tours of duty, the VBA’s system of processing claims has accumulated a back-up that still includes veterans from campaigns as far distant as Vietnam. Bilmes’ study presents some possible solutions. In the case of the VBA, it recommends that the bulk of disability claims be accepted simply and immediately, without the red-tape that currently hampers the process. Bilmes also suggests higher levels of funding to address the ills of the VHA. “On the medical side, they basically need more money,” Bilmes said...
...teams played the first period in a scoreless stalemate, as the puck rarely left the neutral zone and the referees whistled only one penalty in the entire frame. Harvard could not convert its lone special teams opportunity, and the Tigers seized the bulk of possession coming out of the locker rooms for the second period...
What a cop-out. Warren Buffet started giving away the bulk of his fortune (about $37 billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism--everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure...
...true maverick, and not just a liberal Republican or a Bush-basher. Despite all polls to the contrary, he calls for ever more troops in Iraq. He has joined Bush to fight hard-line conservatives and the bulk of the GOP on immigration reform. He is one of the only GOP’ers to say America should be worried about global warming. And he always arouses the ire of fundraising Republicans and Democrats alike by his campaign finance crusade, which produced not only real legislation but also, through his aggressive chairmanship of the Indian Affairs Committee, help bring...
...native peoples with whose plight she empathizes. But it’s more than that. As much as her reddened, pale skin betrays her legitimate claim to native roots, she unabashedly enjoys her minority status. She revels in playing the underdog. She’s lived the bulk of her American experience impoverished, ostracized by her poor English-speaking skills, feeling culturally dissonant in a structure (the US Army) that demands conformity—and she’ll be damned if she’s going to let skin color get in the way of that.Now my father...