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...government is ultimately accountable to the people, not to a collection of self-interested shareholders. Government money will go directly towards providing quality care to patients, not to handing out dividends. Under such a system, doctors should be paid high salaries for the essential service they perform; this would prevent “brain drain” from the medical profession and avoid the delays in elective procedures that have become problematic in other countries. Furthermore, such a plan would not preclude a private health insurance industry for patients who wish to extend their health care benefits to cover experimental...
...quite caught on that Spring Break is our one-time, one-week excuse to go somewhere with close friends before the end of the school year.) Upperclassmen who have caught on can choose between a variety of Spring Break hot-spots: The socially conscious among us will perform Habitat for Humanity manual labor. The adventurous can backpack through Europe or Asia. The science-concentrating seniors may journey to Cambridge’s illustrious bio labs to complete their theses. The semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine might choose to crash...
While its current melodrama gets the headlines, ABC News shares the same fate as its rival news divisions. All are expected to perform alchemy--to increase market share while cutting the budget and, oh yeah, delivering the news in a lively, interesting and accurate manner. Iger insists that he and Eisner give ABC News their full support. "We cheer them on," says Iger, "on a regular basis. We're constant and avid viewers. We oftentimes suggest things that are attempts to help news grow versus contract: we've urged on many occasions for more programming...so I take exception...
...issue of her famous father. Shankar, 81, has said he regrets not playing a greater role in his daughter's life. In early February, when Jones played a Manhattan show, Shankar, who often plays concert dates with another daughter, Anoushka, 20, for the first time saw his older daughter perform. The subject makes Jones uncomfortable: "I don't want to bash my dad--I love my dad--but I don't want to give him credit for something he didn't do. I grew up with my mom, and he wasn't around...
...quick to point out and celebrate their Viking lineage. On the last Tuesday of every January, the famous Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival takes place. Teams of torch-bearing men in Viking outfits parade through the streets of Lerwick, then make their rounds to various sites to perform skits. Legend has it the pagan event used to mark the end of Yuletide and was meant to conjure the sun to appear after the long, dark winter...