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Mattie, a peppery little old lady, whose hand I have not yet fixed, alerted me to the present danger of a problem that we've watched fester for years, but never thought would actually happen. While letting insurance companies "bargain" for them, some patients have been priced right out of the market. You should check into this right now. Is your local hospital on your health plan...
...after wire service stories miss the larger point about the Hu-Medvedev meeting. What was most important is what didn't happen. If the outside world had access to China's intelligence service - the Guojia Anquan Bu or National Security Ministry - this is how an after-the-fact debriefing on the Medvedev visit might have gone from one of Beijing's official Russia specialists (an expert who, for the sake of literary license, was educated in the U.S.) addressing the Central Committee and the State Security Council...
...dialogue with their son. They need to fill the role of intellectual midwife: engage them in a conversation where the rules, the laws, what's right and what's wrong are talked about and not imposed. Sometimes parents have to forbid. But that doesn't mean the forbidding should happen in the absence of a dialogue...
That will likely happen even if the voters in the fall restrict gay marriage to opposite-sex couples. Such challenges, however, are anything but a sure thing. If the federal courts rule that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional, gays in states where marriages are banned will likely be out of luck, Sam Marcosson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, told TIME...
...Westminster palace coup is by no means an easy feat, nor a likely one. Complex Labour Party rules and regulations specify that a leadership contest can only happen if the Prime Minister quits or is challenged. There is no indication that Brown is ready to quit. A successful challenger would need the backing of 20% of Labour MPs (at least 71 on current standings). That is a hard number to attain even in the current climate. And even if a challenger emerged, it would fall to the Labour Party Conference in the autumn to decide, by a public vote...