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...Tsang underestimated the growing desire of many Hong Kongers for more democracy: last week he admitted that "my behavior and performance have contributed to the DAB's negative image." The DAB's decline could lead to big gains for democratic parties in next year's legislative elections?a troubling prospect for Beijing...
...industry’s lobbyists in Washington, but the payoff to contributors comes at the expense of seniors, who will continue to be stuck with high prices, even with government support. More than six million seniors will also lose their Medicaid drug coverage and will face the prospect of being stuck with higher co-payments or losing access to certain drugs that Medicare does not cover, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Universal health care is a tremendously worthwhile goal, and prescription drug benefits are a step in that direction, but by threatening to make medicine less...
...additional billions worth of free-range pork tossed in. "This is classic machine politics, the sort of thing we used to do," said a prominent Democrat. Hence the Wall Street Journal's opposition to both bills. After all, Bush is running such huge deficits that they might imperil the prospect of endless tax cuts--and even "increase pressure to raise taxes to pay for" these new programs, the editors noted...
...School on Monday”—an obvious attack on Harvard’s Thanksgiving break calendar. The clumsily anti-intellectual construction stings with all the force of a soggy slice of New Haven pizza: those of us in Cambridge are hardly daunted by the prospect of three laid-back days of class at a university that isn’t Yale...
...Yale’s biggest weapon—literally—is its tight end, senior Nate Lawrie. Listed at 6’7 and weighing in at 256 pounds, Murphy calls him “an NFL prospect.” It will be a tall task, indeed, for Harvard’s undersized secondary to stay with Lawrie, who leads the team in catches (64) and receiving yards (678) on the year. Harvard could not handle Dartmouth senior tight end Casey Cramer when the Big Green knocked off the Crimson on November 1. If Yale uses Lawrie...