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Freud's e-mail sparked a flurry of responses from novelty other email accounts registered under names such as Mary I, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Master Yoda, God Almighty, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Pfranklin D. Roosevelt...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pfopen Gets Famous | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...abnormal for any industry to throw back upon the community the human wreckage due to its wear and tear, and the hazards of sickness ... should be provided for through insurance," said Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, at the dawn of the progressive era. The work of building a social safety net for the industrial age proceeded, in fits and starts, for the next 50 years. The excesses of that effort brought the Reaganite swing in the opposite direction, during which time the protections frayed and the need for a new, more flexible information-age safety net became apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Keep Delivering on His Promise | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

...Obama has achieved the signature domestic goal of his presidency, and the most sweeping piece of social legislation since the 1960s Great Society initiatives that saw the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. Universal coverage is a goal that has eluded Presidents going at least as far back as Teddy Roosevelt, and Obama's bill comes as close to that target as anyone has. The bill would provide health coverage to an estimated 32 million additional Americans, meaning 95% of those who are legally in this country would have health insurance, up from 83% today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History: House Passes Health Care Reform | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

Actually, the President was just adhering to an obscure Washington tradition. The practice of using multiple pens to sign important legislation dates at least as far back as Franklin Roosevelt and is now one of our government's frivolous little quirks, much like that oversize gavel Nancy Pelosi carried around the other day. (See TIME's top 10 knockdown congressional battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Obama Use So Many Pens to Sign the Health Care Bill? | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...world, the USA, finally entered the 20th century. Yes, not the 21st century, but the 20th," read an article published Monday on the popular French news website Rue89.com. The site also posted a copy of TIME's cover from Nov. 24, 2008, showing Obama as a contemporary Franklin D. Roosevelt, below which it placed a cartoon of Obama on the phone to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, saying, "Hi, Nicolas, how's your health?" The Dutch daily De Volkskrant noted that the change was a long time coming: "Where health care was until now a closed privilege, Obama and the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E.U. Gloats Over Belated U.S. Health Care Reform | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

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