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...insurers will face strict new regulations, and many of their new customers will be people they refused to cover in the past. Ultimately, it means an annual income redistribution of $200 billion to help the working poor pay for insurance, which is why Republicans oppose the bill. But Jacob Hacker, the leading promoter of the public option, favors it. Every Democratic Senator, including those like Ohio's Sherrod Brown who have impeccable liberal records, favors...
Declaring a new "era of openness" in the nation with the world's largest HIV-infected population, President Jacob Zuma vowed to extend free antiretroviral drugs in 2010 to HIV-positive infants under 1 as well as pregnant women and patients with low T-cell counts who suffer from tuberculosis and AIDS. The move marks a break from former President Thabo Mbeki's denial of the HIV threat...
...Matthew Jacob, a senior leisure analyst at Majestic Research, is more cautious. "They're trying to overcome people's reluctance by making staterooms bigger and showing that they have more amenities than shuffleboard, with the onboard water parks," says Jacob. "But when it comes down to it, you're still on a ship. And that's not for everybody. And it never will...
...Gordin says, he is "South Africa's first real African President." "I am a Zulu," says Zuma, in an echo of his predecessor's famous "I am an African" speech. "I should not be trying to be an American or more British. I must be a Zulu." (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...complacent. "[The protests] say to the government that we had better move," he says. "It's a wake-up call. 'Deal with this! Pay serious attention!' If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose confidence in the ANC." That is the promise of Jacob Zuma. That after half a century in which so many of Africa's independence hopes soured into arrogant dictatorships, the new leader of its proudest democracy accepts that if he wants the job, he's got to earn...