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...things have changed. Somewhere along the line we’ve reached a scenario of red-faced middle-aged men screaming and spitting at their senators about Hitler and death panels. Now we’ve heard that a public option, once seen as a central, if not critical, piece of true health-care reform, might be “off the table,” replaced by non-profit cooperatives that studies have shown will not effectively lower insurance costs, supposedly their biggest selling point. In fact, the public option has been sidelined by many as a far-left...
...brilliant as ever.” Former student Lili P. Porten called her dissertation adviser a “truly beloved” woman who was able to adopt that rare fusion of brilliance and kindness. “I have dozens of e-mails from people since her death...she changed their lives,” Porten said. “She would find the insight you didn’t know you had, and that was really wonderful.” Barbara Ellen Johnson was born in Boston, Mass. on October 4, 1947. One of two Presidential Scholars...
...USCCB) who have become increasingly disturbed by the politicization of some church leaders this year, most notably in protests against President Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame and the role of some church officials at Senator Ted Kennedy's funeral service and burial. (Read "After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope...
...particularly tragic incident in 2004, hundreds of Muslim protesters in the village of Tak Bai were rounded up by security forces, stuffed like sardines into trucks and left to roast in the heat during a drive to an army detention center in Pattani. At least 78 people suffocated to death, and seven others died during the demonstration itself. Then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose administration had taken a particularly hard line in the south, claimed that the detainees might have succumbed because it was Ramadan and they were weakened by religious fasting. An inquest this May acknowledged that the victims...
...most high-profile attack on an elected official in recent years, Pakistan's Religious Affairs Minister survived a brush with death after gunmen opened fire on his official car in the heart of Islamabad on Wednesday. The minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, was shot in the leg, but is stable and undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital. The attack killed his driver...