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...Tuesday forecasting a dire outlook for Medicare. The report forecast that, based on current trends, Medicare would run out of funds by 2017. Just one year ago, a similar report said Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund would not run short of funds until 2019. (Read "Making Health-Care Reform Pay for Itself...
...from seeking to create an international crisis, North Korea is acting defensively. This is a regime that above all else seeks to remain in power, to preserve its juche ideology of militant nationalism and self-determination, and to run its economy without following China's advice about "reform and opening." But the regime presides over a desperately poor country with few resources, very little international trade, an ever-widening gap between itself and South Korea, a calamitous public-health situation and a military that gobbles up the greater part of the budget. On top of all that, North Korea...
...final meeting of the semester, the Undergraduate Council voted last night to pass the UC Reform Act, which alters its constitution to increase the body’s size from 35 to 51 representatives. The vote—26-6-2—comes on the heels of a semester’s worth of discussion and debate sparked by a set of recommendations issued by the Dowling Committee, which was charged last spring with reviewing student governance and issued a report this March proposing reforms. This legislation, which adopts some of the Dowling Committee’s suggestions...
...annual Boston Freedom Rally was, like its 17 predecessors, a joint concert-and-protest event aimed at boosting the campaign to legalize marijuana. Nor was the action entirely spontaneous: the two men were Keith Stroup and Richard Cusick, they were, respectively, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the publisher of High Times Magazine, and they intended to make a statement. Taken into custody by an officer at the rally, the two men were respectful and well-behaved—quiet for the time being. The real statement would come some months later...
...disaster began when GOP leaders, after calling a news conference to blast Obama's numbers, released a budget outline with no numbers - just magic assumptions about "reform." The mockery was instantaneous. Then Republicans began blaming one another for the stunt, which generated only more mockery about circular firing squads. And when they finally released the missing details on April 1, the notion of an April Fools' budget produced even more mockery; the substance was ignored. "The President's dog got more attention," recalls Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee...