Word: lifeness
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...much of a mental shift is involved in starting a new character that you think is going to be the foundation of a new series? How much of a character's life do you know at the outset...
...things about hardboiled is that the line between good and bad is blurred. Not for Easy Rawlins. But for Leonid, he's been on one side and he's trying to get to the other side, and it's not so easy once you've had a whole life in this other thing...
Girls are affected by nannies too. Not having her mother around creates in the infant female a "vacuum of need," says Friedman, which she might try to fill in later life with substance abuse or promiscuity - presumably with those married men in her social circle who were also raised by nannies. (See the top 10 scandals...
...know this is a tough vote," Obama told the House Democrats, and, for many of them, it was - politically. But in another way, it wasn't: it was ground zero of what being a Democrat has meant for the past 80 years. It rectified an astonishing injustice in American life: most of the nonworking poor are guaranteed health care, through Medicaid, but the working poor are not, unless they're lucky enough to have an employer who provides it. Another injustice: insurance companies determine who receives coverage and can deny it at will. For Democrats, this represented a gaping hole...
...Stuart Butler came up with a plan to provide universal coverage, paying for it by replacing the tax-exempt status of employer-provided health benefits with a system of progressive tax credits. In 1993 the Republicans, led by Senators John Chafee and Bob Dole, who never forgot that his life was saved by government health care, offered an alternative that many, including me, thought was better than the Clinton Administration's proposal. It became the basis for the universal health plan passed in Massachusetts by Governor Mitt Romney. Massachusetts, in turn, became the basis for the federal plans offered...