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...Organized by an ad hoc organization called Better Health Care Together, the meeting was meant to publicize the group's shared principles and to announce both new members and a drive for commitments to reform from the Presidential candidates of both parties...
...Wednesday meeting in New York City involving prominent members of all those groups was the latest manifestation of the passionate and organized drive to get Presidential candidates (and the next President) to make health care reform the top domestic priority...
...Instead, however, the firing of Chaudry has turned into a political crisis for Musharraf, as massive crowds continue to demonstrate their support for the 59-year-old lawyer from Quetta. His journey last weekend from Islamabad to Lahore on the historic Grand Trunk Road, usually a four-hour drive, turned into 24-hour odyssey as tens of thousands of people clogged the 200-mile stretch of road to catch a glimpse of the man who has become the country's most popular figure. The mood of the crowds was virulently anti-government, as protesters demanded that Musharraf step down...
...weakening of what remains of the German Old Boy network in Munich. With the executives of the Von Pierer era either retired or under investigation, Kleinfeld was supposed to have had a free hand to go about cleaning up the company from the inside and to take his restructuring drive to the next level. But the past had one blast left, and it got Kleinfeld...
...liberal, pluralistic ideal of a society where everyone is free to participate equally, regardless of race or religion or creed, has advanced admirably in the West, while in certain areas of the world homosexuals are still hanged, rape victims stoned, and women forbidden to drive a car or receive an education. It would be a mistake, in this précis of progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic...