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...members of Congress, most of whom can claim the title only by voting on bills. But Ted has made laws that changed the nation, building coalitions on issues from discrimination to campaign finance to health to education. I have covered a few of his failures, notably his attempts to enact national health insurance. But there were more successes, like the 1965 immigration bill that ended national origins quotas, the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (now SCHIP) in 1997, and battles to raise the minimum wage. (“If you?...
...profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...solution to global warming requires global cooperation, particularly between China, India, and the United States. However, cooperation cannot be easily achieved; economic motivation is undoubtedly necessary to enact the necessary cooperation...
Shakespeare's birthday on April 23 will be marked by an extraordinary relay. Over 24 hours, 60 groups of youngsters from New Zealand to Hawaii will enact excerpts from his plays. As part of this project, a Serbian youth group will perform Romeo and Juliet. How will they respond in a country so scarred by its own history of tribal divisions? Life has taught me a hard lesson about the power and impact of that play: my father, who died in 1970, banished me from his life because I played Juliet in a school production that dared to confront...
...most important change that this bill would enact would be to raise the maximum number of Pell Grants, the federal grant for students from low-income families, raising the grants $750 above their present ceiling. It is the specificity of this bill that tries to help students avoid private loans that is essential to its overall merit. To persuade students that have turned to the costlier private loans because they are able to borrow more money, Kennedy’s bill also raises the amount a student may borrow in a federal loan for a financially dependent undergraduate...