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...Pentagon boss, Cheney had an uncanny ability to guide Bush's decisions. Even as he claimed expansive Executive powers for the President, Cheney salted the bureaucracy with allies who could alert him in advance about policy disagreements, help him influence internal debates at key moments and give him a leg up in framing issues for the President. He was always deferential to Bush, often waiting with head down and hands clasped behind his back to address the President. Both by habit and by design, he cultivated a relationship that suited Bush's view of their roles: the President...
...states faced during the 2009 fiscal year is but one hurdle in a longer financial gauntlet, according to this bleak assessment from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Corina Eckl, the NCSL's fiscal program director, recently compared the endless waves of grim economic forecasts to "breaking your leg and then getting pneumonia." Cheery stuff...
What did you miss the most during these stretches? I really missed my friends and family quite a bit on the first leg, over to Hawaii. That was pretty hard. After the trip wore on a bit, I got kind of used to being alone. I made tons of friends all over the world. It becomes easier to say goodbye and move...
...diet and exercise, that patient could have a heart attack - requiring more treatments - and the doctor would take a financial hit. "The more defects you prevent, the more money you make," says Francois de Brantes, the health-payment-reform guru who coordinates Prometheus. "The fact that anybody has a leg amputated for diabetes" - something that's preventable with proper treatment - "is revolting, so you make that a financial blemish...
...kept going. Finally the smoke cleared to reveal the carnage: parts of the skull and brains of a teenage boy lay on the concrete; a bleeding man was being dragged unconscious into a pickup truck; a third victim hobbled with medics into an ambulance, a bullet stuck in his leg...