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...identify a pivotal event in their personal or political life and explore how it altered them forever. We begin this week with Karen Tumulty's look at how Mitt Romney, as Massachusetts Governor, applied his businessman's mind to the seemingly intractable problem of health care and devised a plan to insure all his state's citizens--an achievement he now downplays to conservative audiences...
...Professed "Yankee Fan in Chief" Rudy Giuliani said on Oct. 23 he'd root for his team's bitter rivals from Boston--a town suspiciously close to key primary state New Hampshire. Coincidence? [ ] Romney Trying hard to sell him-self as the Gipper Redux, Mitt Romney released an economic plan that would institute a "Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom...
...that Sam Walton created for the rural South is being massively overhauled to compete in the more urban, more competitive universe where it now lives. You might not notice it yet if you shop there, but Wal-Mart is in the midst of a revolution, an audacious three-year plan that will change practically everything the company does: the way it builds and operates stores, the way it buys and stocks merchandise, the way it hires, trains and compensates employees...
...company's newest medical-insurance plan, for instance, offers associates the chance to buy family coverage for $14 to $21 a month. But the deductible is $2,000--a huge outlay for a cashier earning $17,000 a year. Wal-Mart says this Value Plan is the most cost-efficient approach for 70% of its associates, many of whom have other coverage through either a family member or the state. Fewer than 10% of its associates lack health insurance, the company says...
...while Castro-Wright and his team plan the Wal-Mart of the future, the company's legal team has been fighting the same old ugly labor battles. Wal-Mart has been tarred by an ongoing gender-discrimination class action filed in California in 2001, and it recently was ordered to pay $62 million in penalties on top of the $78.5 million judgment awarded by a jury last year after it found Wal-Mart guilty of shortchanging associates in Pennsylvania who worked during their breaks or after they clocked out. (Wal-Mart says it will appeal.) Nor has it looked...