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...many television interviews Potter grants, he plays the role of the soft-spoken dad, calmly laying out his indictment of the for-profit insurance industry with a slight Tennessee twang, his gray hair buzzed and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses perched on his nose. He isn't prone to hyperbole and, despite his having become a whistle-blower to "make amends" for the wrong he feels he did as a health-insurance executive, Potter is eerily calm, an island of serenity in the midst of the reform debate currently playing out at raucous town-hall meetings and amid charges...
...their own bosses, they also say the limitations it imposes on start-up businesses means it won't create jobs for enough of France's 2.4 million registered unemployed. And even if most of the projected 500,000 new companies launched this year wind up prospering, their tiny size isn't going to make a big dent in the country's economic decline in 2009, which economists estimate will be at least 3%. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...South Africa Is She or Isn't She? It took just under two minutes for Caster Semenya to win gold in the women's 800-m race at the World Athletics Championship on Aug. 19, but it will be weeks before gender tests show whether the 18-year-old South African is in fact a woman. Preliminary results of the tests--ordered after her masculine physique and dramatically improved performances prompted complaints from other runners--showed Semenya had three times the level of testosterone of a typical woman. The sport's authorities are trying to determine whether...
Some might say, though, that the telethon isn't as lucrative a money-getting tactic as it once was. In fact, despite typical production goals of keeping costs at 25 cents to 33 cents of every donated dollar, it's hard to know how much donated money to bank on. Most telethons only collect between 60% and 75% of pledged dollars. During a 1983 Democratic National Committee fundraiser, 800,000 of the 1 million callers rang in just to declare their support for their Republican President Ronald Reagan. Still, Lewis' MDA program remains one of the most enduring hallmarks...
FlyBy isn’t sure yet, since none of the vacationing Bartleys could be reached. And we have to assume the burger king isn't actually contemplating a run, but regardless, this is the best excuse we've heard in months. We'll be using it as soon as mandatory sections start. Now if only they were offering The Politics of Congress this semester...