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Himmelstein said that the study represents additional evidence to support such a health care system, and he criticized President-elect Barack Obama’s health insurance reform proposals for not going far enough because it continues to rely on private health insurance companies...
...raise the value of its currency against the dollar more than 15%. But it will also show that during his last visit to Beijing as Treasury Secretary - which ended today - Paulson and his team had to ask the Chinese government not to backtrack on its commitment to "continued currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington...
Despite the heavy focus on finance, the council found room to discuss proposals for language reform. Romance languages professor Virginie Greene, the co-chair of the ad-hoc committee advising Smith on foreign languages, gave a presentation before the council concerning foreign language requirements...
...Bear Stearns, the collapse and sale of Merrill Lynch, or he bailout of A.I.G. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Lehman’s CEO, might not face any more discomfort than his public roasting by Rep. Henry Waxman, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. No judge can sentence him to pay back the $300 million he took from the company in the last few years, because he did so legally—if unethically...
...been my experience and my observation that what is happening in Afghanistan is a loss of momentum in terms of addressing the issues of narcotics, which permeates the society, corrupts a generation of Afghans, prevents the legitimate growth of economic reform and, perhaps more insidiously, funds the insurgency by virtue of the tremendous revenues that they're able to generate - and it certainly prevents the influence of the government from expanding." - Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the lack of progress the U.S. and its allies are achieving in Afghanistan...