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...these circumstances, few Harvard athletes have ever gained the rank of “campus celebrity,” and may feel underappreciated for their countless hours donated to the service of the crimson and white. After a week of morning lifts and getting your butt kicked at practice, the last thing one wants to hear is, “wait, we have a women’s hockey team...
...spineless for suggesting compromise, he joked that some “spinal transplants” that he had performed on Democrats in Congress were “rejected.” During the question-and-answer session, a middle-aged woman pressed Dean on what “rank-and-file” people should do if Obama backs away from the public option. Dean blamed Obama’s advisers for convincing the president that any health care bill that’s passed would be a victory. “But a bill without the public option...
...Moore eagerly counts the ways. He lays out the "Dead Peasants" insurance loophole by which a corporation can take out policies on their rank-and-file workers and, when they die, reap millions in tax-free payouts. To support his position that airlines are risking catastrophe by underpaying their pilots, he excerpts the Congressional testimony of Hudson River hero Chesley Sullenberger, who notes that his pay had been cut 40% and he lost his pension. In an episode that might have come from a Dickens novel, Moore tells of two Pa. judges who shut down a state-run detention center...
...demonstrators outside the embassy were a ragtag bunch. Their rank included cancer survivors, unemployed tradesmen and an elderly woman too wobbly to manage both a protest placard and a cane - in short, precisely the people socialized health care is designed to save. Jon Burden, whose wife's breast cancer is in remission, said he wanted critics to know that "without the NHS either my wife would be dead or I would be broke...
...Inspector General's report released Monday there are references to the considerable doubt inside the CIA about interrogating prisoners of war. Although CIA management apparently never raised those doubts with its political bosses, the rank and file understood how little they themselves knew about interrogation. Few had ever conducted an interrogation, let alone an interrogation employing physical coercion. They also worried about the legal guidance coming out of the Department of Justice. (Read Five Revelations from the CIA Report...