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...those on employer-based health insurance on the presumption that most people would sign up for state-based private plans, which would be able to pool more effectively to keep down costs. It's the only plan that's been scored by the Congressional Budget Office as deficit neutral, and it lays out a more comprehensive approach. Senator Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, also recently laid out a proposal that expands private health-insurance coverage; and Senator Mike Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has said...
Mousavi said Monday he was not hopeful that the council would address his charges because he believes its members are not neutral and have already indicated support for Ahmadinejad. Read an exclusive interview with Ahmadinejad's opponent, Mir-Hossein Mousavi...
Historically, the most powerful new mediums have changed the way we perceive the world--and how we relate to one another. The telephone, television and Internet have done that in ways we are still processing. But technology itself is neutral. It's a tool, neither good nor evil. It's all in how we use it. Twitter itself may continue to rise or it may go away, but its characteristics--real-time conversation, instant links, groups of followers--will affect the platforms that come after. There's a lesson in that for all of us in the media...
...Agency to use a cost-benefit analysis in antipollution enforcement (her ruling was later overturned). But the real fight over her confirmation will focus on her role in a case about tests for promotion within the New Haven, Conn., fire department. Although the tests were designed to be race-neutral, the pass rate for blacks was half that for whites. So New Haven threw out the test results. Several white firefighters who scored high enough for promotion sued the city. One of the plaintiffs was dyslexic and had hired tutors to help him. Sotomayor was on the three-judge panel...
...biology professor who has been a vocal advocate of Ad Board reform and has served as an advisor to students who have gone in front of the board, agreed that resident deans often serve in a conflicted role.“The resident dean, who is supposed to be neutral, is supposed to be defense and prosecutor,” he said.The representative a student selects will also be able to have some influence on proceedings in front of the board.“Right now if you get Ad Boarded and you bring a non-member of the board...