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...hundreds of these terrorists [in civilian courts, and] 340 of them are in prison right now." He said the President would have to decide "whether [the KSM trial] can be done safely in other parts of the country." (The primary reason given for moving the trial is the security burden it would present in New York City.) (Read "How Should America Try Terror Suspects...
...equal across all of the arts. A lot more students, for example, are engaged in the musical arts than in the visual arts. Our mission is to enhance student experience across the board,” said Professor Robin Kelsey, the Chair of HUCA and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography...
...adults in the U.S. are looking after an older relative or friend. Of these, 43% said they did not feel they had a choice in this role. And although 7 in 10 said another unpaid caregiver had provided help in the past year, only 1 in 10 said the burden was split equally...
...could return to majority status on the back of a failed President with a divided majority party," Ornstein says. "It works less well, ironically, when there are 59 Democrats in the Senate and the GOP loses the excuse that the Dems have enough members to do it themselves. The burden to join in governing is greater - and the risks of opting out are greater yet." Indeed, health care reform, if it fails, will have been brought down not by Democratic divisions as it was in the early '90s but by the loss of their 60th seat - and with it, their...
Another component of the healthcare bill that is potentially devastating to our generation is the burden it places on small businesses. When one thinks of small businesses, one tends to think of mom and pop stores, family operations, and life savings. Yet a recent Kauffman Foundation report indicated that there is a “coming entrepreneurship boom” among people ages 20-34. The Democrats’ healthcare plan would require all small businesses with payrolls over $400,000—around one million employers—to cover healthcare or pay an 8 percent surcharge. This means...