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Erika J. Rickard, co-president of Harvard Law School’s LGBT group HLS Lambda, also touched on the importance of raising the profile of a group that has been historically silenced...
...save his party from an embarrassing defeat in November, therefore, Obama must remove himself from the realm of public policy and reenter the sphere of politics that won him the presidency. He should reframe how he pitches the health-care law and correct the myriad misconceptions about the government’s handling of the financial crisis. Obama can learn a lesson from his candidate self; it was that Obama, after all, who, despite his paucity of qualifications, won the presidency with shrewd political positioning and image promotion. President Obama must rediscover his political acumen soon for the sake...
Despite the conclusion of the yearlong debate and decades-old struggle of reforming health care, Obama finds himself fighting an uphill battle against a tide of Republican vitriol and popular ambivalence. But even with a majority of Americans still against the new health-care law, Obama must read between the numbers and figure out how to best sell this plan to the public. A comprehensive survey conducted by the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll illuminates possible pitches the president could effectively make to the public...
...member states. There are no restrictions, however, on how people can collect signatures, be it in the street or on social-networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Once the signatures are in, the commission has four months to either accept the initiative by drafting a proposed law to go before the E.U. Parliament, or reject it. Petitions can be killed off if the commission finds them outside its remit, or if they are "manifestly against the fundamental values of the E.U." Sefcovic also included safeguards to prevent "silly" initiatives from being proposed or extremists from hijacking the process...
...rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur, a 23-year-old from Keonjhar district in Orissa, lost her first baby to a bacterial infection. She began attending the meetings with her mother-in-law, learning, she says, to "go for checkups, take iron and get a Tetanus shot." Last year she gave birth to a healthy girl...