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...understand those ideas, we don't value them; and if we don't value them, we don't protect them. A nation can never be ignorant and free, said Thomas Jefferson, our third Making of America cover subject, and one of the goals of our series is to help explain what makes us a nation and a people...
...Elkann, the 30-year-old vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's €6 billion holding company, this is the perfect place for a power lunch. After ordering his favorite Vittoria dish - a lightly fried veal cutlet with fresh tomatoes - Elkann leans in to better explain his choice. "You know why I really like this place?" he says, lowering his voice and widening his eyes. "Because it's fast." Those are the words of a young man on the move. It's been nine years since he was handpicked by his grandfather, Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli...
Whenever I try to explain the certification process to my friends and family, I'm reminded that the whole thing is rather mysterious and confusing. Board certification is the method the medical establishment uses to set standards and maintain quality of care in 24 broad areas of specialty. In the U.S. the process is administered by the American Board of Medical Specialties and is strictly voluntary. You can be a licensed, practicing neurosurgeon without ever passing the boards. The big pressure to take the exams comes from insurance companies, third-party payers and hospital administrators, who are more likely...
Khamenei's pragmatism may explain why the regime is now showing more willingness to negotiate than it has in months. A Western diplomat and Iran expert believes that Khamenei "definitely" had a hand in Ahmadinejad's letter to U.S. President George W. Bush last month, the first effort at a direct high-level contact between the two countries since 1979. After the U.N. Security Council permanent five plus Germany and the E.U. presented Tehran with a package of incentives aimed at persuading Iran to stop enriching uranium, Khamenei authorized the President to call the proposal a "positive step." Ahmadinejad said...
...Newsom considers San Francisco's historic undertaking a "moral obligation," one that other city, state and federal officials have shirked. "We are implementing this. We're not waiting around," he told TIME. "It's no longer good enough to explain away our problem and to point fingers." Around 41 million Americans are uninsured. They inevitably wind up seeking medical attention from overburdened emergency rooms. The political dialogue must change, Newsom insists. "If it's not going to happen through national leadership or statewide leadership," he says, "then it has to happen on a local level...