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...panels that have jurisdiction over the issue on Capitol Hill. "We want to be team players," Wyden says. But they also note that time is quickly running out if lawmakers are to meet their self-imposed deadline of having a bill passed out of both chambers before the August recess. So they are watching the informal negotiations that are underway on both sides of the Capitol carefully. All they need, they say, is the right opening. Or at least a seat at the table...
...announcing their intention to work together to draft legislation. The cooperation among committees in both chambers is a break from the 1994 attempt at health-care reform, when committee infighting helped sink that effort. Both chambers have said they intend to see legislation reach the floor before the August recess, though many admit the tougher part will come when the differences between the two versions must be reconciled. "The House bill will be the high-water mark of what we'd like to do with the system," says a Democratic Senate staffer involved in the talks. "Still...
...week, hundreds of Harvard students will depart Cambridge for locales far and wide during spring recess. Some will fly to the sunny Caribbean while others head for home or hop across the pond to Europe. But regardless of where they’re going, students may benefit from the Undergraduate Council’s recent decision to subsidize a new student venture, Get Out of Cambridge...
...Phoebe is presented as a nonconformist, who balks at some of her school's rules. Since these rules seem to be nonsensical, we're on her side. Even when she spits at another child during recess, it's almost justifiable, because we've seen her being picked on. So when one of her teachers tells her mother Hillary (Felicity Huffman) and father, Peter (Bill Pullman), "Something's going on with Phoebe," we're initially as dubious as they are. It soon becomes apparent, though, that Phoebe is not a spirited child being oppressed, but either mentally ill or suffering from...
...television, she says, and knew it was a place where people went for help. There she sat silently on a bench, uncertain as to what to do, while crowds of people scurried past, scarcely glancing at the quiet child. It was only once the courthouse emptied during the lunch recess that the judge noticed her and asked why she was there. "I came for a divorce," she told him. Horrified, he took her to his house to play with his 8-year-old daughter, and granted the divorce two days later...