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...bars, the comfort and enjoyment suddenly never felt more disgusting. Did you deliberately arrange to have the "Best of Asia" section come right after the Darfur article to induce guilt? I don't know whether to condemn or congratulate you, but I'm already reconsidering my annual vacation plan. Karson Chu, Hong Kong...
...price of every new American car, for instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...
...more tightly controlled market. Of the major candidates running for President, only Mitt Romney-a Republican-has actually passed a mandatory universal system, in Massachusetts, which subsidizes health-care premiums for the working poor. So far, two leading Democrats, John Edwards and Barack Obama, have proposed universal plans-but both require employers to provide health insurance, as Hillary Clinton did when she proposed her plan in 1993. The details of any plan will be hammered out in the legislative process, but when universal health insurance comes to America, it will probably look more like the Wyden plan than those being...
...thought about these issues, a pattern has emerged: they are synergistic, mutually reinforcing. They fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. National service would produce more quality teachers; the Wyden plan would transfer money into teacher salaries and away from health benefits; the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce would produce the scientists and engineers necessary to achieve energy independence. When you put the jigsaw puzzle together, the nation that emerges is more equitable, more efficient, with a reinvigorated citizenry-a safer and more powerful nation, braced by the power of moral example as well...
...endgame in the pursuit of war criminals in the Balkans, including, almost certainly, more high-profile arrests. The European Union and Washington have other business in the region: they want to see Kosovo, still a Serbian province, granted its independence, and one way to overcome Serbian opposition to that plan is to promise the country closer ties with Western institutions such as the E.U. and NATO, all of which will be easier if Serbia clears the decks by handing over most of its remaining indicted war criminals - a deal that the government, at last, seems to be willing to make...