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...apparently been largely achieved over the past week, with the exception of one sticking point: Providing health care for unemployed workers. Bush and the Republicans want to do it with tax credits, redeemable at private insurers. Daschle and the Democrats want to do it with established government programs COBRA and Medicare. The White House line is that COBRA and Medicare won't help people whose companies went bankrupt - Daschle's is that having a 60-percent tax credit for health insurance doesn't mean anyone will honor it at an affordable price...
...exactly? Not quite clear. As former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak explains it, "We'll be here and they'll be there." In between, a presumably impenetrable barrier. Split the house into two units, with iron doors locked and bolted between them, and razor wire on the windows. The cobra has one condominium, the mongoose gets the other. It's not a happy way to live, but it would be better, for both sides, than today's vicious intimacy...
...Following Octavian's conquest of Egypt, Antony's suicide-by falling on his sword-and then Cleopatra's-perhaps with the help of the asp of legend, if not a cobra-the new emperor ordered that all statues of Cleopatra be destroyed. Most of the surviving images depict a figure with a voluptuous body and a strong face, masculine in its features, emphasizing power. Representations from old coins, particularly rare Greek ones, have helped to identify Cleopatra in marble and limestone sculptures. So, too, did the tiniest item on display-a 1.3-cm blue glass intaglio bearing Cleopatra's profile...
...yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that...
...yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that...