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When there are only a handful of students qualified to run, it is hard to form multiple tickets, especially “when you factor in that some people don’t want the job and some people don’t want to run against friends of theirs,” Cox explained...
According to UC Student Life Committee Chair Senan Ebrahim ’12, the change in bylaws also allows those seeking to form student groups a chance to advocate for themselves more thoroughly...
Hearing Blagojevich sermonize about corrupt politicians strikes plenty of people as the height of chutzpah. But Blagojevich is a creature of his times, the purest embodiment of a culture in which scorn is just another form of attention. And few people are as capable of smiling their way through caustic interviews and brutal daily encounters. Blagojevich, a former Golden Gloves boxer, seems convinced - perhaps by the fans who still snap up his bobblehead dolls on eBay or stop him on the street to pose for pictures - that he can brawl his way back to respectability. "When the facts come...
...Congressional-reform proposals would do little to change the current system. While some form of "employer mandate" would require employers to provide coverage or pay penalties, most large employers already offer benefits and many small businesses that can't afford them would be exempted from the requirement. Of the reform proposals that could have some long-term effect on the employer-based system, the most significant may be one that would levy a 40% excise tax on policies that cost more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family coverage in 2013. (The average total cost of individual...
...With that in mind, many large employers offer so-called wellness programs, including efforts to get workers to lose weight or quit smoking. But it will probably take a long time before personal responsibility or feel-good wellness programs start to pay dividends in the form of slowing costs. Until then, employers are scrambling to keep costs from exploding further. In addition to shifting more costs to employees, companies are also turning to a host of strategies to trim what they spend for workers' insurance. More and more firms are conducting "dependent audits," weeding out enrollees who don't actually...