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Throughout his years in office, Kennedy was particularly focused on reforming the nation's health care system, a passion showcased by his return to the U.S. Capitol last summer to vote on a Medicare bill while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Some supporters of health system reform efforts this summer had said they had hoped a viable reform would be ready in time for Kennedy to cast an "aye" vote...
...Great Panic, David Wessel details how Bernanke essentially turned himself into a fourth branch of government, exploiting a loophole in a 1932 law that gave the Fed wide latitude in "unusual and exigent circumstances" to become a virtual economic commander in chief, dropping several trillion dollars into the nation's credit jet stream without presidential or congressional input, inaugurating all kinds of unprecedented programs with obscure acronyms. His motto, Wessel writes, was "whatever it takes...
Malaysia prides itself on being a multiethnic democracy where numerous religions coexist. But its reputation as a moderate Muslim-majority nation has been called into question by a monthlong controversy over whether a Muslim mother of two, Kartika Sari Dewi, should be whipped for a peculiar crime: drinking a beer in public. On Aug. 24, Kartika was due to become the first woman in Malaysia to be caned, after an Islamic court sentenced her in July to six lashes. But Islamic officials suddenly delayed the corporal punishment just hours before she was to endure the lashing...
...Back at her village, Kartika break down into tears as friends come to comfort her. As she counts down the days to her fate, it is Malaysia's image as a moderate and inclusive Islamic nation that will continue to take a beating...
...vaunted reputation as the world's "Hermit Kingdom" - the ostensibly inscrutable nation that leaves the outside world guessing about what goes on inside its borders - North Korea can also be predictable. Since at least the early 1990s, Pyongyang's relations and level of engagement with its neighbors and with Washington have swung wildly from outright hostility toward rapprochement and back again. No matter how tense things get, Kim Jong Il (like his father Kim Il Sung before him) always steps back from the ledge and tries to re-engage...