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...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco's Latest Innovation: Universal Health Care | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...anyone to see Hastert and other Republicans fighting on his side. The Democrat, who represents much of New Orleans, is in serious legal trouble by all accounts, and the allegations released last weekend after the raid are lurid. The FBI charges he authorized bribes of Nigerian officials to drum up business for a Kentucky telecom company, iGate, and that on July 30, 2005, he took $100,000 in cash out of the trunk of a collaborator's car in Pentagon City, and then stored the cash in a refrigerator in his home in plastic food containers. The following month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the FBI Brought the Two Parties Together | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...shawl, and the crowd—some who had known Meat, others who had simply been moved by the scene—followed and circled around her. As the blanket’s pile of cash grew, the four men continued to chant to the deep beat of their drum...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Powwow, Friends Mourn Death of Respected Campus Leader | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...died Wednesday after being shot in Minneapolis. One by one, they ran their hands over their faces and through their hair, miming the motions of cleansing that the Native American ceremony is meant to evoke. As four men wailed and beat a drum, the first raindrops fell...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Powwow, Friends Mourn Death of Respected Campus Leader | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...This drum is a very, very, very powerful instrument,” Beyl said. “It will be a song that we want to send back home to his family...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Powwow, Friends Mourn Death of Respected Campus Leader | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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