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...ranging from $10 to $2,000, and the group has planned both an online sale and a concession stand for later in the summer. Bruun has even made overtures to a local man who in May became the winner of the ninth-largest Powerball jackpot ever: $232 million. "I sent him a letter," says Bruun. "It has gone unanswered...
...their rolls as baby boomers age into the Medicare system, private insurers early on declared their (albeit qualified) support for President Obama's health-reform effort. So when word came last month that the Democrats were drawing up a new public-relations battle plan, the insurance companies were sent reeling - and seemed to be caught off-guard. A late July memo from the House Democratic leadership about how to sell reform during the congressional August recess told members, "Hold the insurance companies accountable." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called private insurers "villains," and President Obama, in an exclusive interview with TIME...
...August 1, all those cozy feelings came under a cloud after Najib's government sent out over 3,700 police personnel to employ their batons, tear gas and chemical-laced water cannons to disperse an estimated 20,000 people who had marched in the capital to demand the repeal of the longstanding Internal Security Act (ISA) security law that is often used against political opponents. Over 500 people were arrested - the biggest mass arrest since the city's race riots in 1969 - and over 50 people have been charged with taking part in an illegal assembly, a crime punishable with...
...State Hillary Clinton, has left the door open to the possibility of re-engaging Washington in talks - though not in the so-called six-party format, which includes all of North Korea's direct neighbors, that Obama favors. "We must pay keen attention to what signal North Korea sent to Bill Clinton," says Yun Duk min, a professor at a think tank affiliated with the South Korean Foreign Ministry. "A key to break the stalemate may lie in there." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...
...Both sides had a case.) But Clinton, as President, didn't waver from his belief that a grand bargain with the North was possible - not just denuclearization but an eventual peace treaty and normalization of relations between Washington and Pyongyang. In October 2000, late in his second term, Clinton sent his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, to meet with Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, where they famously clinked champagne glasses. The former President even flirted with the idea of going to North Korea himself right up until the end of his presidency; in the end, he didn't, because...