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That said, health care is no longer recession-proof, because rising co-payments have given consumers some painful choices to make. Says Romoff: "Do I fill up the car with $50 of gas and take the kids to school and go to work, or do I pay the $50 co-pay to see a doctor?" He's limiting the growth of UPMC's salary-related expenses to 5% compared with last year. And yet despite the collar, the company will probably hire more than 3,000 people this fiscal year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding One Economic Bright Spot on Main Street | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Compared with all that, an Obama win would be just a start. Surely the next day we would wake up with the scoreboard still the same. Our life spans would still be shorter, our prison rolls longer and our net worths lower than the average American's. But the psychic impact could be enormous. Young blacks, like me, in particular lived with the burden of having dropped the ball that the civil rights generation advanced. Obama is our particular vindication, in that he can't win without the votes of young blacks and in his specific mannerisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Blacks, a Quiet Question: What if Obama Loses? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...longer know what to make of Brown. The Bears won a game they had no business winning against Harvard and confirmed their status as the trendy Ivy League pick in Week 2. Then they go ahead and get blown out by a 2-4 Rhode Island squad. If the Open Curriculum All-Stars would stop choosing when to win and lose the way they choose classes, maybe my job would be a little easier...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ho Back To Lead Crimson Attack | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...would offer a bid to a top-ranked team that has four games left,” Roth continued, “but if that team loses one of its remaining games, then the team drops precipitously in the rankings. Thus, the rankings of the two teams are no longer comparatively equal.” The inefficiency in getting equitable bowl matchups had a number of negative effects, including lower viewership ratings and lost advertising revenue, according to Ünver. “Private entities want to get the best matches to earn money through ads and ticket sales...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Markets, By Way of The BCS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...eclectic eccentricity” (touted in “Lookin’ Fly”) for conventional tropes. In spite of his best efforts, MURS’ shit is not as raw as his moniker promises.Of course, in response to these complaints, the no-longer-underground Nick Carter would say with uncharacteristically good humor, “Oh you mad cause I’m stylin’ on you / Love songs one minute then I’m wilin’ on you,” but this sort flip-flopping sacrifices both his integrity and message, and could...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MURS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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