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Mattie, a peppery little old lady, whose hand I have not yet fixed, alerted me to the present danger of a problem that we've watched fester for years, but never thought would actually happen. While letting insurance companies "bargain" for them, some patients have been priced right out of the market. You should check into this right now. Is your local hospital on your health plan...
...Carterish echoes come with two potential dangers. The first is that running as the embodiment of hope can lend itself to a certain self-righteousness-what critics have already started to call ?litism. The second danger is that the public will come to see Obama as naive about America's enemies abroad, as it eventually concluded Carter was. Ever since Obama said he was willing to negotiate with those enemies directly and "without precondition," Republicans have been trying to tag him as the son of the Georgia governor...
...base of the Republican party. In a recent appearance on MSNBC's Hardball, McCain was asked if he could pick a pro-choice Republican like former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge. "I don't know if it would stop him but it would be difficult," McCain said. The bigger political danger is clear to McCain's allies. In recent months, he has had some success in uniting the Republican Party behind his candidacy, and he would not want to reopen old concerns among the party base about his conservative commitment just weeks before the party convention...
...show's co-curator, Ernst Volland, says the photographer's aesthetic instincts may have been formed by Russian avant-garde revolutionary art of the 1920s - the paintings of Rodchenko and films of Vertov and Eisenstein. "Remarkable," says Volland, "how even in the most harrowing circumstances, with death, suffering and danger all around him, he could still tend to the composition...
...star turn notwithstanding, the real danger to the party comes from its rotten base: the county and township officials whose corruption and venality have had the greatest impact on the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese. There's sure to be a backlash over the number of children killed by the quake, buried in their classrooms as shoddily built schools collapsed around them. In the days following the quake, blogs and online message boards teemed with demands for answers as to why so many schools were destroyed. In one structure alone--the three-story Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan...