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...investment bank Jefferies International wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. A possible joint Nestlé-Hershey bid to break up Cadbury - with Pennsylvania-based Hershey taking the bulk of its chocolate business and Switzerland's Nestlé swallowing the rest along with Cadbury's gum brands - "would seem to make sense," the analysts said...
Americans seem willing to make this sacrifice, but just barely. About one half of Americans support health-care reform, even though only roughly one fifth of Americans predict a material gain from such support of a national system. According to a recent CBS poll, only 22 percent of Americans “said the reforms now being considered would help them personally,” while 30 percent even believed that “reforms would hurt them personally.” In the same poll, 53 percent favored “the government offering everyone a government administered health...
...moral framework. The intellectual backing necessary for its success, however, is not. The health-care debate serves as only one instance of this more general conflict between compassion and conscience. Our collective moral outlook appears purposefully structured, above all, to not offend and to avoid dogmatic statements that seem improvable. Even disapprobation toward a selfish man seems out of place. His hoarding might not be laudable, but each of us is hesitant to claim definite knowledge of his moral worth. In a widespread effort such as national medical reform, compassion requires conscience in order to work. On a solely pragmatic...
Sandel said that the tenets of many philosophers are rumbling underneath contemporary issues. He told the audience that although Aristotle’s ideas of justice seem unfamiliar because they require an assessment of what is just, their applications are recognizable in the questions that society struggles with...
...merits of the opposition. Democrats will be ready to trumpet health care reform if it passes, but it's not clear that will be enough to sway voters, who rank jobs and the economy as their most important issues. "Five or 10 years from now, maybe, this bill will seem as a success, who knows?" says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "But I don't think it will give Democrats a lift next year." Perhaps. But most Democrats aren't eager to see what kind of lift the Republicans will...