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...Tibetan people. "I think violence is inevitable," says Lobsang Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law's East Asian Legal Studies program who focuses on human rights in Tibet. So it's imperative for both sides to do their utmost to clear the logjam that has blocked progress since the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Lhasa nearly 50 years ago. On the Chinese side, there's little doubt that some officials realize their strategy of oppression at home and stonewalling overseas will one day backfire. But as Tibet scholar Robert Barnett of Columbia University says, their chance of influencing...
...bonded core of seniors will look to make a strong showing at its final Heps, which will punctuate four years of tremendous progress for the program and leave a legacy of dedicated athletes...
...seminar on health policy on the planet. There's a curriculum for each of the two-hour sessions; topics have ranged from benefits packages and employer mandates to tax treatment of health insurance, payment reform and prevention and wellness. Although they are about halfway through the agenda, participants say progress has already been made. The group agrees on broad principles like a focus on prevention, a commitment to cutting costs and universal coverage approached through the expansion of employer plans. But the group - so far on the friendliest of terms - has disagreed on whether coverage should be mandated or simply...
...America (PhRMA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Most participants declined to comment directly on the talks, saying they were sworn to secrecy by Kennedy and risked expulsion from the meetings by talking on the record - though a few were willing to speak anonymously about some of the progress that has been made. Most were eager to praise the new momentum Obama has breathed into the talks this week, including the breakout session on health in his fiscal-responsibility summit on Monday, the underlining of his commitment to health-care reform in his address to the joint session of Congress...
Senator Chris Dodd, who often sits in on the meetings in case Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, can't participate, has said he expects to see legislation introduced by Memorial Day. Kennedy monitors the progress by telephone from home. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, who has called health-care reform his top priority this year and is working hand-in-hand with Kennedy - Baucus' staff has often been in the room when stimulus negotiations allowed them the time - has said that he expects to hold hearings in the spring. By all accounts, the bill will go through...