Word: frames
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Several liberal lawmakers are trying to frame an incremental reform that would achieve universal health coverage for at least one emotionally important constituency: children. Leading the effort is Wofford, who would provide full government funding to insure all children in families below the poverty line (now $14,764 for a family of four) and would offer partial subsidies sufficient to insure children in families that have incomes perhaps four times more than the poverty level. "It probably wouldn't cover that many more people," says an Administration health expert, "but Congress and the President could...
Alas, all FOPers did depart after a night of mental and physical preparation. 314 first-years, loaded down with their frame packs, boarded nine buses and two vans for a week in the wilderness...
...perhaps shouldering for space on the shelf, perhaps simply from inexperience -- Quindlen writes a New York Times column, but this is only her second novel -- she has given her story a cumbersome plot frame, involving a grand jury investigation of a mercy killing and a melodramatic double misunderstanding underlying an estrangement between Ellen and her father. This elaboration clutters the novel but does not spoil it. Nor does the sense that beyond its last page, Ellen still has a living parent whom she understands only as a collection of flawed character traits...
...deal not only with acclaim but also with the critical focus that comes with fame. Some journalists in South Africa called his prize a "fluke," alleging that he had somehow set up the tableau. Others questioned his ethics. "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering," said the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, "might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Even some of Carter's friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl...
...military junta's refusal to go gentle into exile. The Pentagon upped the invasion ante by announcing that seven cargo ships are being activated for possible use in a Haiti operation. Despite the fist shaking, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson sees no indications the military has changed its time frame for a possible invasion in late September or early October. "Plainly an orchestration campaign is now under way," he says. And the White House's hair-trigger statements? "I suppose that's just smart. The sense you get now is maybe they want to throw people off, so that when...