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...have made billions while Americans have health care below the standard of other industrialized countries, and pay more for it. (Even the flacks for HMOs acknowledge that the system needs reform.) Or that patients are routinely denied procedures they should be entitled to. "You're not slipping through the cracks," a claims adjuster, since reformed, tells Moore. "They made the crack and are sweeping you toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sicko Is Socko | 5/19/2007 | See Source »

...introduced to the dysfunctions of U.S. immigration policy early in my career, back in 1986 in Chicago. Because I was the only Spanish-speaking reporter in my newsroom, I was assigned to cover the Reagan Administration's sweeping amnesty for illegal immigrants. The measure was also supposed to crack down on future illegal immigration. It didn't. Desperate indocumentados kept pouring in, and eager U.S. businesses kept hiring them. A decade later, when I was based in Mexico City, Washington tried again with the Illegal Immigrant & Migrant Responsibility Act. It was going to "seal" the border with more fences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration Reform: Still a Band-Aid | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

With its collection of over 50,000 dazzling artifacts created in pre-Hispanic times, Bogotá's Gold Museum is one of a kind. Now, thanks to a recent government crack-down on crime and corruption, tourists are trickling back to Colombia's capital to gawp at the treasures firsthand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Dorado Found | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...reportedly in hiding in Mather-occupied River East. Orders to shoot him on sight have been issued by most of the remaining House Committees (HoCos). Calls for peace have gone unheeded. In Leverett-occupied Radcliffe today, a large group of demonstrators was dispersed by a battalion of crack riflemen, with civilian casualties estimated to be in the low hundreds. Spokespeople from the Leverett Home Ministry declined repeated requests for comment. By definition, an army is composed of two or more corps, which are made of two or more divisions. The typical division contains 10,000 to 20,000 men. Thus...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM’s War Bureau: Battle Updates/Roll of Honour | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

University President Derek C. Bok recently soliticted student e-mails on calendar reform. Thanks to the crack members of FM’s IT department, we got a look inside Bok?...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yo, Derek Bok! | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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