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Similarly, Sicko, Michael Moore's doc about the American health-care system, had a deep rather than broad impact. The film, which made slightly more money than Truth, "has done more for public awareness [of universal health care] than any other single event in the movement," says Joel Segal, a staffer assisting Congressman John Conyers on a universal-health-care bill. "I don't think it's a coincidence that all the Democratic candidates--presidential and congressional--are pushing universal health care as a front-burner issue." A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that as a result of Sicko...
...what can be done? International envoys are cobbling together yet another round of peace talks, but for meaningful negotiations to proceed, security must first be restored. The initial step is to ensure that the peacekeepers protect the camps so aid workers can operate freely and escort humanitarian convoys. While there's a great deal of pressure on the Sudanese government, more could be applied to the rebels, who sometimes take international outrage over Darfur as a license for murder. And the aid community should increase efforts to service the Arab majority--people like Ahmed, who suffer many of the same...
Harvard Square Homeless Shelter—the country’s only entirely student-run shelter—provided a home to Shearer like it has done for countless others for the past 25 years...
...might have changed the zeitgeist. "Do I really laugh like that?" she asked her doppelgänger Amy Poehler, whose Clinton laugh resembles Clinton's laugh only in its awkwardness. Poehler nodded, laughing, and Clinton's "Yeah, well ..." response seemed more spontaneous than anything she had done on the stump in a month of electoral massacres. If nothing else, SNL had tapped into the slow boil that many of Clinton's female supporters had experienced during Obama's February - that feeling of taking a backseat to the egos of others who might not work as hard or know as much...
...outcome of this health care debate is. It is the legislative branch. They have hearings. They have open public hearings on the plans we suggested. They really have control over the process. It is going to be imperative that the President works with the Congress to get this done. I believe the plan that I put forth has a very good chance of garnering congressional support. Obviously Congress will work with Congress on a plan, unless something dramatically changes [with] how the world works between now and 2009. But it is something that I think I have a special insight...