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...Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, one of the key men drafting a final Senate bill behind closed doors this week, on Tuesday called the doctors' legislation "very important" to ensuring final passage of health-care reform. Republicans counter that that is precisely the problem. Not only is the move a transparent ploy to get physicians onboard the reform bill, said Senator Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, "I also see it as a transparent way to take the deficit off the table." Republicans have called the move a budget trick, one of many Democrats are using, they...
...While Vickers says his research proves the co-authorship of Edward III beyond a doubt, he's yet to convince all of his fellow Shakespeare experts. Says Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the largest Shakespeare preservation group in Britain, "I'm not yet sure we've reached the stage yet that we can be sure of authorship without attacking it from many different angles," such as investigating metrics, classical allusions and signature abbreviations. "One of the problems of this sort of thing is that it's not easy to pronounce on the evidence without doing...
Interbank chairman Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, one of the drivers of the repatriation strategy, has had two homecomings of his own. His father, also named Carlos, was once Peru's central banker but was forced to leave the country following a military coup in October 1968. "He went from being Peru's central banker to an assistant branch manager at an office in San Francisco," says Rodriguez-Pastor, who was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Dartmouth. His father rose through the ranks of Wells Fargo and returned to Peru as Finance Minister...
...feature of the discussion in both the White House and the Kremlin, although their conclusions differed. "There's no way we're going to be able to close the Afghanistan-Pakistan border," Gromyko declared in February 1987, "so we need to end this war." (Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen warned last month, "We have this safe haven in a sovereign country that is threatening, plotting against Americans and other Western countries, and it must be eliminated.") See TIME's photo-essay "On the Frontlines in the Battle Against the Taliban...
...question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world. And who has done more than Barack Obama?” said the chairman of the Nobel Committee, after announcing that President Obama had won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It is this question, not one’s opinion on Obama’s domestic policies or what he might do in the future, that is the salient issue when evaluating whether Obama should have won the prize. And in this regard, Obama is clearly...