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...local journalist Xie Chunlin, whom he brought back to the U.S. and married in 2000. Ford briefly interned in the office of Portland Mayor Vera Katz but otherwise supported his family by selling cell phones. He became more serious about his faith, letting his beard grow, wearing a Muslim cap and studying Arabic. Friends say the man they knew as a gentle giant began distancing himself from the African-American Muslim community, choosing instead to pray at the Islamic Center of Portland, whose members are mostly Arab and North African immigrants...
...Brussels, where a top item on the agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that is anathema to France, the biggest beneficiary of the Union's agricultural subsidies. "It's out of the question to change...
...Islam, a field of study that has seen a surge in academic interest among undergraduates across the country in the past year. A faculty member teaching this course who may be unsympathetic to those who did not preregister and may simply start the new semester with an enrollment cap and the same number of teaching fellows, with those who preregister receiving top preference...
WILENSKY: The postal workers are going to now be offering something that Medtronic has been offering for a while, in which the employer puts in a block of money, there's a block of money which the individual is responsible for--essentially a deductible--and then above that cap regular insurance kicks...
...losers are going to be those who are higher users. The suggestion is that this plan will change people's behavior, so that the overall cost will be lower, but unfortunately it all depends on exactly how it's designed. If you don't do something clever with the cap, very quickly you will have more and more people going into the insurance. All the big companies--Humana, PacifiCare, UnitedHealthCare, Cigna, Aetna--have their own models...