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Potter is now the only health-insurance insider to lambaste - on the record - the industry's motives. Potter warns that the industry's cooperation, which has been hailed by Democrats, is hogwash, a "charm offensive" designed to disguise its true motive: profit. "This is just a repeat of what they've done before," says Potter, who was hired by Cigna around the time of President Clinton's push for reform in the early 1990s. Insurers were then, as now, pledging change in order to improve health care for Americans...
Just when Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator, had evidently embarked on one of his occasional charm offensives - releasing hostages (two Americans and five South Koreans), sending envoys to the South for former President Kim Dae Jung's funeral, and reopening some traffic across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the continent - he has also reminded the world that getting North Korea to get rid of its nuclear program will be as difficult as ever. On Sept. 4, Pyongyang, via its state-run news agency, noted matter-of-factly that it was in the "last phase" of its uranium-enrichment...
...have hardly seen you play tennis without your cap. Is it your lucky charm? Chandru Boopalam AUBURN HILLS, MICH...
...late offensive awakening, the visiting squad went on the attack beginning in the 51st minute. One San Diego State shot hit the crossbar, while another went high, and a trio of corner kicks was cleared by the Crimson defense. But the fourth corner kick would be the charm, when Aztec defender Allie Crowson knocked in a header to knot the score at one goal apiece. San Diego State dominated the rest of the period, outshooting its hosts 8-2. As regulation time ticked away, the Aztecs earned a free kick on the left side. A San Diego State midfielder directed...
...think it's worth noting that as the police launch their charm offensive and the government says they lead the world on climate issues, that Wat Tyler was murdered, the other leaders executed, and the King's promise to agree to the people's demands was revoked - as soon as the revolt was no longer a threat," said a leaflet distributed by organizers. In anticipation of heavy-handed action by the authorities, the camp has been ringed by swiftly erected fencing and is guarded by volunteers perched on "tripods," vertiginous lookouts fashioned from scaffolding poles. It's unlikely, though, that...