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John Lennon: The Life By Philip Norman; out now More moving and less plausible than most fiction, Lennon's life is one of the great 20th century fables, and it's told here definitively by a major Beatles scholar. Even as Lennon went from young tough to global pop star to hippie prophet, he never ceased to be a shattered, motherless little boy. When have so many ever followed anyone so lost...
...government announced Healthy China 2020 earlier this year, a major health care reform plan that seeks to provide basic health care to all Chinese residents within the next 12 years. The initiative requires improving the country's vast network of public hospitals, a prospect on which Sunnylife Global Inc., a publicly traded company in West Covina, Calif., is staking its future. Sunnylife entered its first joint venture in 2003 to upgrade some of the country's public hospitals by providing everything from updated equipment to structural improvements. Dr. Bridget Cheng, who co-founded the company in 2000, envisioned bringing...
...hold on almost every blue state, taken the lead in almost every purple state and gained small but solid leads in several large red states, including Ohio and Florida. John McCain was already bound by a limited set of combinations to reach 270 electoral votes; now, without a major change in the race's dynamic, he has no clear path. Sarah Palin revitalized her image with a folksy, defiant presentation, and McCain found a way to attack Obama with a smile, but neither performance changed the trajectory of the overall race. Obama and Joe Biden didn't take...
Mental-health advocates, led by Senator Pete Domenici, scored a major victory with a provision in the Wall Street bailout bill that requires insurers to provide the same coverage for mental illnesses as for physical ones. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from schizophrenia, had pushed for more than a decade to bar insurers from limiting coverage of mental illnesses. The new rule could affect policies for 113 million people. But not all riders in the $700 billion package will have such widespread appeal...
...There is, for instance, the exquisite portrait of John Quincy Adams that sits near the tray disposal in Adams dining hall. It is a work by Gilbert Stuart, perhaps the most famous American portrait artist, and was finished by Thomas Scully. Grindlay calls it “a very major work of American art.” Another Singer Sargent, of Charles W. Eliot, rests in Eliot Dining Hall, and the Winthrop House Library contains the largest private collection of John S. Copley portraits...