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...second report, released earlier this month by the nonprofit Families USA, found that about 87 million people - roughly 1 in 3 Americans - went without health insurance for some period between 2007 and 2008. "The huge number of people without health coverage is worse than an epidemic," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. "Almost everyone in the country has had a family member, neighbor or friend who was uninsured." (Read the five truths about health care in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Your Premiums Help Cover the Uninsured? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...holes in.“It was good to get out into the sun and feel how it is to play again,” Pollak said.Leading the way for Harvard, Pollak finished in a four-way tie at sixth, shooting +10 in the three-round weekend. Pollack, who led all competitors at last fall’s Big 5 Invitational in par-5 holes, seems to be emerging as the indisputable anchor of the Crimson squad, despite being just a freshman.Junior Danny Mayer shot +16 to tie at 27th, while classmate Greg Shuman shot 19 over for a share...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Ninth Place in Trip to Savannah | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...Bronx in 1925, Mulligan served in World War II and attended Fordham University before entering the TV industry in its New York infancy. He was a prominent member of that first generation, the so-called Golden Age of Television, that birthed directors who would win Oscars (Sydney Pollack, George Roy Hill, Franklin J. Schaffner, William Friedkin) or be nominated for them (John Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Arthur Penn, Arthur Hiller, Robert Altman). Directing scripts by such comers as Gore Vidal, Reginald Rose and Horton Foote, he learned a reverence for the word and for the midcentury liberalism it embodied and ratified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mockingbird Director Robert Mulligan Dies at 83 | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...collegiate coach, crafting a starting lineup is not a fine science, but rather an art.Call Harvard coach Tommy Amaker the Jackson Pollack of the Ivy coaching realm; for him, it’s all about improvisation.Last season, this translated into numerous starting fives, with Amaker trying, fruitlessly, to find his masterpiece. It never came, as Harvard posted two separate, crippling seven-game losing streaks en route to an abysmal 8-22 record on the year. The team, along with its coach, will look to find an answer this year.“There’s been such a culture...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Picking up the Pieces | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...eleven children. At age nine, Benny got a clarinet. First at the neighborhood Kehelah Jacob synagogue, then at Jane Addams' Hull House and in private lessons with a member of the Chicago Symphony, he applied himself so diligently that at 16, he was a full-fledged member of Ben Pollack's band, one of the best jazz groups in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HE SET AMERICA SWINGING Benny Goodman: 1909-1986 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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