Word: congress
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...voters. Indeed, the Cambridge system stands in striking contrast to the form of most state and national elections in the United States. Both are based on the perplexing notion that 51 percent of the vote deserves 100 percent of the representation. In this very manner we elect our Congress and our state legislatures. It is a winner-take-all system that awards disproportionate power to even the slightest majority...
Most government concentrators come to their department expecting to immerse themselves in the history of Congress, the courts and the constitution...
...Power. These are imperious gods of last resort, but the only ones left standing. These are not in themselves bad gods and they certainly are not new gods either. One must judge a deity by its martyrs. Many might die for democracy; very few, I think, for the 106th Congress. And how must a courtier live? He must survive by intrigue and scant trust, through deference to the king and his gods, by keeping out of the fields and sun. By, in short, the mean ends Purdy deplores...
...play an interactive game or join a chat room, his or her Internet habits can be captured, analyzed and sold ? and parents could find their offspring bombarded with all sorts of marketing malarkey. The new restrictions, which delineate the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just about everybody ? except marketers and advertisers ? feel good, says TIME Digital editor Lev Grossman. "Everyone?s in favor of protecting children, and although these roadblocks might...
...WATCH Last week Aetna and Humana got slammed with class actions for failing to disclose bonuses given to doctors and claims reviewers who kept costs down by restricting patient care. More cases are expected, particularly if Congress allows malpractice suits against HMOs. Meanwhile, HMOs are planning to raise their premiums an average 11% next year, following this year's 6% increase, according to a Sherlock Co. survey. Although HMOs usually scale back these increases, why such a big initial hike? HMOs cite higher drug costs, for one thing, not to mention lawyers' fees...