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...seems to me there is no more important task for University leadership...than asking of every member of the University community their maximum contribution to the University’s intellectual environment,” Summers said...
...decades ago, companies provided one-size-fits-all health insurance. It had a deductible, co-insurance and an out-of-pocket maximum. But with medical costs skyrocketing, that system became far too costly for employers to maintain. Says Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent philanthropy that studies health-care issues: "The country made a de facto decision to go with a market-driven health [care] system based on competition and choice." Some folks were most interested in low cost; others wanted to see any doctor, go to any hospital or take any test they felt necessary...
...shoes in an apparent attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight; on nine counts, including attempted murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction; in Boston. Reid, who is accused of receiving training from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...
...France has aligned itself with symbols alien to, and even at odds with America's own. In 1998, for example, the company ran a print ad campaign featuring overweight cowboys complaining about the fact that McDonald's France refuses to buy American beef but uses only French, to "guarantee maximum hygienic conditions" - an unsubtle effort to identify the Global Arches with European efforts to block the import of hormone-laced American beef...
Early this week, the F.A. will announce whether Terry can represent England while legal proceedings against him are under way. The F.A. is also expected, along with the Professional Footballers' Association, to review whether the maximum two-week fine in a standard contract should be raised. "It is time for a much tougher approach to the problems which are dragging the game down," says Gordon Taylor, the boss of the footballers' union, the PFA. Terry and Morris aren't expected to return to court until Feb. 20, but football is already on trial...