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Perhaps. Beginning in 2004, senior citizens will be able to buy a Medicare-subsidized prescription-drug discount card for about $30 a year. Although the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the card will save the elderly perhaps as much as 25% when they buy prescription drugs, the General Accounting Office maintains that the savings will probably be closer to 10%. Furthermore, outside analysts believe that seniors will be able to save just as much by shopping around on their own rather than locking themselves in to a drug card...
...disappeared. The last time Raed Karim al-Ani saw his brother Mohammed, 27, was in mid-May, when the taxi driver climbed into his battered 1983 Volkswagen and chugged out the driveway of his parents' house. In early July two men came to the house with Mohammed's ID card and car, and said they had seen U.S. soldiers pin him to the ground at a checkpoint, then haul him away...
...Bush is nothing if not tenacious. When his chief of staff Andy Card approached him in mid-October and asked whether he would consider flying into Baghdad to have Thanksgiving dinner with the troops, Bush didn't reject the idea as opportunistic or foolishly risky. As long as no one was put in harm's way, Bush told Card, he would go. And so Card and a tiny handful of other aides went to work, looking for a way to thank the troops that would also be an antidote to the mission-accomplished debacle and a rebuttal to critics...
...series “Screening Modern China,” The Wedding Banquet tells the story of Wai-Tung, a Taiwanese businessperson who wants to hide his relationship with his gay partner and thus decides to marry a woman from Shanghai in need of a green card. Wai-Tung’s parents, overjoyed by the news, immediately fly to New York. Cultural clash ensues, and Lee’s deft treatment of the comedy and madness in the situation drew him international attention. Mandarin/English with English subtitles. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archive...
...free dinner—bereft of pesky telemarketers pretending to care how happy we are with our local service…or if we’d be interested in this great new product…or if we’d like a low APR on a credit card. (Who knows how many strings are attached to that one?) And while some may think the do-not-call effort is trivial, 51 million people have expressed their approval by signing up. It’s another clear win for consumer rights...