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...Medicaid but didn't seem to know it. Yet they also found something surprising when Romney began looking at who, precisely, the uninsured were in Massachusetts. Everyone expected the typical profile to be that of a single mother just scraping by or maybe someone with chronic illness--not exactly ideal customers for insurers. Instead, nearly the opposite was true. "It turned out they were largely single males, and they were working," Romney recalls. "They were eminently insurable. It's funny how data opens up new insight...
...jumpstart live music at Harvard alone: “The student body wants small events to happen with relative frequency,” she says.The Pub, with its performance stage, sound system, and proximity to the same equipment that has allowed WHRB to broadcast performances from Sanders Theatre, is ideal for small concerts featuring Harvard’s musically-inclined. It also has the potential to draw significant crowds, with its food and drink serving as an added incentive to attending live shows that is lacking at more obscure on-campus venues such as the Quincy Cage.FOOTING THE BILLBut while...
...classic Hindu epic, the “Ramayana.” The central figures in the dance drama are Rama—an avatar of Vishnu—and his wife Sita. The story explores the themes of good and evil, as well as the definitions of the ideal man and ideal woman in Indian society. “Hindu epics give moral lessons about what your duty is,” says Martin. Although Indian classical dance is a complex art form and requires a trained eye to pick up on its intricacies, students involved with...
...networks, has lobbied for changes with other media moguls, arguing that the restrictions are anachronistic. But even as both the print and broadcast media seek to revitalize themselves, the FCC needs to be careful in the amount of deregulation they allow. These kinds of horizontal monopolies are less-than-ideal solutions.The most vulnerable targets in cross-format ownership are objectivity and diversity of opinion. The news world is incredibly small, with the same reporters often working and appearing across multiple formats.Print reporters end up writing the books that are then reviewed and discussed on television and talk programs, creating...
...speakers denounced Democrats and Republicans alike for complicity in an imperial occupation. Candid, heterogeneous speech replaced the official, recycled prose of four days before. At free speech tables following the march, students coordinated coalitions and outlined visions. Whereas the first rally demonstrated the hollowness of the representative ideal, the second embodied the kind of conception of democracy we urgently need. The contrast between campaign politics and grassroots organizing is particularly instructive in highlighting the follies of working within the system in order to change society. The conventional defense of this tactic rests upon its pragmatism: Based on the idea that...