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...high healthcare costs. “The rising cost of medical care in the United States is driving up premiums, and what’s been going on under premiums is an erosion of benefits,” said panelist Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of The Commonwealth Fund. The panel also included Christopher T. Robertson, a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, Melissa B. Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Matt Selig, the acting director of the Health Law Advocates. Robertson stressed that many individuals with health insurance still...
...went out to play my game and came away with a win,” Cao said. On her side of the draw, Tachibana beat Erin Clark of Richmond, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, Elizabeta Zaylsiva of Winthrop, 6-2, 6-4, and Kateryna Yergina of Virginia Commonwealth University, 7-5, 3-4, ret. Though she did not face a ranked challenger, Tachibana took down opponents who had previously defeated players ranked 73rd and 107th in the nation. The three-set match in the finals between Cao and Tachibana was equally as competitive as the road each took...
...TIME that the rapid and substantial growth of the sector has "delivered with it opportunity [as well as] issues" and that improvements would come from new measures such as increased police patrols in problem areas, a new student hotline for complaints and requirements that all 1,300 of the Commonwealth-registered training organizations in the country reregister themselves to prove "that their principal purpose is that of education, not immigration...
...Police Act of 1861, which India's British colonial rulers had modeled after the Royal Irish Constabulary - a security force they had deployed to subdue a restive population. "[After] independence, the style never changed, the subject-ruler relation has endured," says Sanjay Patil, program officer with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), whose book Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed - Moving from Force to Service in South Asian Policing is due to be released next week. The book holds the political culture of South Asia responsible. Corruption and the lingering stigmas of class and caste in conservative South Asian societies also inform...
Copney's defense attorney, J. W. Carney, Jr., said after last Wednesday's arraignment that he has yet to see "any evidence whatsoever" from the Commonwealth indicating that his client was "a participant in the murder." Carney also noted that Copney—who he said was in a "surprisingly good" mood—is a Christian and prays each morning and evening...