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...many cases, coverage doesn't dwindle as hours do, though such workers may be required to pay more to maintain the policies they have. Yet no one disputes that the health-insurance safety net remains badly frayed. "There are many people who still fall through the cracks," says Ray Werntz, of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, "but in some cases, that's because they don't know what their options are." Learning and acting on those options may be the best thing people can do to avoid a John Q. scenario. It's not always pretty when life imitates movie...
...band is just out to have some fun and score some chicks. In contrast to the Strokes edgy “Hard To Explain,” Alex Greenwald’s surfer-dude wail sounds most comfortable singing, “I’ll try for one ray of sunlight to hold in my hand/ Maybe we can be happy again.” There is nothing too sophisticated in their arrangements and lyrics, which are reminiscent of Weezer in sound but not in substance. Their lyrical irony extends no farther than their...
Jack the butcher (Michael Caine) is dead. His three pals and his adopted son (beautifully played by Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone) bibulously set forth to scatter his ashes in the sea. As they drive, flashbacks inform us of a life richer in complexity, coincidence and moral confusion than we might expect from a humble shopkeeper. Schepisi also wrote this patient adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker prizewinning novel, in which wry humor and even a certain sexiness break through the reserve of a rueful, realistic, but finally emotionally rewarding film. --By Richard Schickel
UNITED STATES Prayer Protest An improvised turban caused a hunger strike at Camp X-Ray, Cuba among suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives. Turbans had been banned, lest they conceal weapons. When one man used a bedsheet to cover his head during prayers, guards ordered it removed. In protest nearly two-thirds of the 300 inmates went on a hunger strike. Most relented when camp commander General Mike Lehnert conceded that they would be allowed turbans and that they would be kept informed about their legal status...
Harvard will likely get an extension for filing a new IMP so they can move further along in their internal planning before and finish the CMP before committing to a five-year vision, according to Ray Mellone, chair of the North Allston Community Task Force that participates...