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...best deal if they're spending their own money rather than their employer's. The idea is a nonstarter, however, because organized labor has negotiated excellent health benefits for its members over the years and doesn't want to see them curbed. The unions are opposed to the next-best idea - a tax on gold-plated health-care plans, which would raise an estimated $28.7 billion per year - for similar reasons. It seems likely that union lobbyists will get that tax reduced, if not eliminated, in the next month's sausagemaking. And then what? Barack Obama's fate depends...
...League schools,” Brand said. “Mostly it’s very balanced and competitive in the Ivy League. We’re going to be competitive and contending.” Although senior saberist Steven Ahn reached the third round, the next-best saber finisher was co-captain junior Scott DiGiulio who made it to just the second. The third best saberist is a walk-on with little experience. “On the men’s side I think we had a pretty strong showing,” Itameri-Kinter said...
...find tickets to the big game? This weekend, when the NBA's best strut their stuff at the All-Star game in Las Vegas, the league will unveil what it hopes will become the next-best thing: a live, three-dimensional high-definition broadcast of it, which they will show to 3,500 viewers on a 45-foot screen at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino for the first-ever live sports event filmed...
Freshman Louis Caputo (184 lbs.) took home third place, the next-best finisher for Harvard. Sophomore Matthew Button (149 lbs.) came in fourth, and freshman Andrew Flanagan (157 lbs.) finished in fifth place. Sophomore Joseph Bechtold rounded out the place-winners, taking eighth in the 174 lb. bracket...
...want to look like Uma Thurman, the new face for Louis Vuitton, but just can't afford those accessories? No problem. Now that the middle class is scrambling for brand-name luxuries, borrowing has become the next-best way to look rich. A cadre of Internet-based vendors have started lending high-status gear. Five other handbag-loan entrepreneurs ventured out this past year, and jewelry will soon be added to the mix. If that's not prestigious enough, some new clubs offer a rotating selection of vintage cars or the latest extravagant ones. "I believe this is a game...