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...ended up with the health-insurance system we have now, based on employers. You get a tax break if you get your insurance through your job. If you get a raise and use it to buy your own insurance instead, you have to pay taxes on that money. (Ditto if you use your raise to pay doctors directly.) Almost everyone takes the tax break. The market for insurance bought by individuals is, as a result, small and stunted, which is all the more reason to stay in the employer system...
...yourself, not only feeling your life as it’s happening, but participating in it.” After that, Penn says, it’s possible to turn outward again. “Maybe you can come back to society and contribute rather than being another ditto head in it.” To aid Penn in realizing his vision, Emile Hirsch (“Lords of Dogtown,” “Alpha Dog”) stepped in as the ideal actor to portray McCandless. “I saw him in “Lords...
...mail and web-browsing are unbelievably great. Ditto the crisp music and video playback. Everybody I called with the iPhone remarked on the crispness and clarity of the audio. For the iPhone, Apple has brought to market a revolutionarily smart, sensitive touchscreen and created an entirely new user interface to match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter - and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless - had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument...
...give that an “A” for asinine. Ditto the other UC candidates, none of whom disagree with keeping ROTC away. Yes, the military discriminates against gay students. Yes, this is a remarkably idiotic—not to mention ineffective—policy. No, it should not continue. But severing every relation Harvard has with the military is a disproportionate response—one might call it an excessive use of force. That would be like those wackjob conservatives who dismiss Harvard because of its association with commies, jews, and pinko liberals. It?...
...system, one of the arguments he made was a pragmatic one, that it was foolish to push the student “into studies for which he has no capacity and in which he feels no interest.” Were Eliot still alive today, he might have said, ditto the professors...