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...Klein needs to get out more. The failure to preserve the public option is an affront not to the left but to the base. Progressives are not demanding that everything be thrown out. Keep the regulations and break up insurance monopolies. Move the financial aspects of the bill to reconciliation, and institute Medicare for all with a 51-vote majority. That is a rational response. Virginia Velez Bainbridge Island, Wash...
...company turned its first profit in 2004, and went public on the Nasdaq the following year, raising more than $100 million in the process. It was by far the most successful Internet IPO since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000. One of its earliest investors, in fact, was Google - before the company entered the China market in 2006. It paid $5 million for a 2.6% stake in Baidu in 2004. But Google sold its stake in Baidu for about $60 million two years later, and entered the search business in China on its own. It was game...
After six months of deliberation, a panel of 32 French lawmakers netted just enough votes to submit a report to Parliament recommending a ban on full-facial veils in certain public institutions. Originally a proposal had been made to pass a law prohibiting the coverings anywhere in public. But after a long and divisive debate, legislators were able to agree only on a ban in government offices, in public hospitals and on mass transit. Parliament will now decide whether any such law should be passed, although it's not expected to act until March...
...dedication, humility, and commitment to learning with which he has pursued his calling should be an inspiration to any young man or woman contemplating a career in public service,” Faust said...
...colleges and universities in the Boston metropolitan area, you wouldn't think that Boston would be dead last on the list, but several of the factors were based on driving-related statistics. So the calculations may have skewed the data by overlooking the role of Boston's public transportation...