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...company. Due to the current state of the industry, Mr Murdoch was naturally bound to deliver a depressing series facts. “There’s a lot of positive news too,” he encouraged, “but we’re going to focus on the negative, in order to improve...
Indeed, I was companionless at one such deserted bus stop. And finally the watch’s slender hands came in to focus. 4:39 AM. That would probably qualify as night. Textbook case of time-to-hop-in-a-cab-itis...
...plot to kidnap Halimi was predicated on the gang's belief that all Jews are rich. The group had tried to abduct two other Jewish men before ensnaring Halimi - a focus that, along with Fofana's outrageous baiting of Halimi's family during the trial - led French public opinion to belatedly agree with Jewish groups that the crime had been anti-Semitic in nature...
Specialty hospitals that focus on providing care for children or cancer patients have long existed, but the target of the House legislation is something else entirely - for-profit health-care facilities owned by doctors that perform some of the most lucrative medical procedures in fields like orthopedics and cardiology. There are now some 220 such facilities operating mostly in the South and Midwest - up from 110 in 2001 - generating some $40 billion in annual revenue. According to Sandvig, more than 80 additional facilities are currently under development. (Read "Starting Health-Care Reform...
...Good for the South Side, It's Good for the World Nothing has been more central to the President's foreign policy approach than the theoretical lessons he learned as a community organizer in Chicago: listen to different views, understand the various motivations and then focus on the commonalities, not the differences. He repeats these refrains everywhere he goes. "The United States and Russia have more in common than they have differences," Obama said last week, shortly after meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the Kremlin. At an April press conference in Trinidad, the President elaborated on his thinking...