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...public option stimulates competition by bargaining down prices, forcing private insurers to follow suit for fear of losing business. This should result in lower insurance costs for policyholders. Unfortunately, key congressional Democrats are backtracking on the public option; proposed alternatives, such as member-owned health-care cooperatives, will lack the market share necessary to challenge private insurers...
...partnership with NATO. And then there's the fact that what the Iran threat represents is a changed game; Israel isn't the only regional player to benefit from the perception that it wields a nuclear deterrent. The danger of a regional arms race creates a new and compelling fear - Arabs with nukes - that may prompt Israel to re-examine its assumptions. Still, having developed whatever nuclear capability it may possess precisely in order to give itself a strategic trump card free of dependence on allies, Israel will not easily surrender its ambiguous weapon...
...investigative journalism has a long history, but generally such people have assumed all risks for themselves and themselves alone. Farrell, by shunning a military escort, made himself into a liability for NATO as well as for The New York Times, which did not report on the situation for fear of Taliban reprisal against its hostages. The Allied forces became responsible for rescuing Farrell from a situation into which he should have never put himself, much less put the life of his co-worker Munadi, a married man with two children who had worked as a translator for U.S. newspapers...
...Steve Farrell lamentably did not have the necessary “fear,” or the common sense, to recognize the dangerous situation in which he placed himself and Munadi. Farrell and Munadi’s kidnapping was the second kidnapping of a New York Times reporter in one year. Such kidnappings usually occur in outlying provinces such as Kunduz (although kidnappings in and around Kabul do occur). Also, the Taliban often kidnap for ideological reasons, valuing Western journalists, whereas criminals might target wealthy businessmen. The situation in Afghanistan, and increasingly in the north, is becoming extremely unstable...
...education for indigenous children but also demands classrooms based on Bolivarian principles, will impose socialist instruction in schools. "There are no private schools or media in Cuba, but we guarantee their rights here," he adds. "We're simply requiring them to be responsible. The terrorist opposition wants to sow fear in our population...