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...coalesce around a single plan, but most G.O.P. measures are likely to be built around a bipartisan Senate bill, sponsored by Democrat John Breaux and Republican Bill Frist. Just last week the pharmaceuticals lobby in Washington announced its tentative support for the Breaux-Frist approach, which would compel insurance companies to provide a "high-option" plan with drug benefits and then help cover the cost of that insurance for the poor and near poor. With its bipartisan cachet, the Breaux-Frist bill is likely to become the big starting point for a fiery debate, particularly since next year the Senate...
...other words, a public university cannot discriminate among the groups that it funds and there is no evidence that the University of Wisconsin was selectively favoring liberal causes in its support of student groups. However, that earlier decision had expressly avoided the question of whether the school can legitimately compel students to pay for the forum...
...else, then, will you compel to undertake the responsibilities of guardians of our state, if it is not to be those who know most about the principles of good government and who have other rewards and a better life than the politician's?" asked Socrates on the sunny shores of ancient Athens. Last Thursday, 2,000 years after Socrates, George A. Papandreou, the Greek minister of foreign affairs, made us think about this very same question at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...itself does not condone violence. The issue of terrorist threats posed by extremists deserves media attention. Terrorism persists as a reality in our world, and an investigation into its activities has a definite relevance and validity. However, Emerson does not make adequate efforts to highlight the political ideologies that compel these terrorists to act. So we are left to think that religion itself motivates terrorists...
While the University has agreed to address the issue of casual labor in principle, Jaeger said it has not yet made firm commitments as to how it will compel its decentralized divisions to follow its casual employment rules...