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...reality, although supporters hail this as an epic achievement, the final product is not ideal and the effort to reform a broken industry is far from over. Ultimately, millions of Americans will remain uninsured, a problem which deserves serious attention down the road. Also, while the new programs will bend the healthcare cost curve, it does not break it, and Congress must take further action to make insurance more affordable in the future...
...stars John Cusack, who, despite a natural tendency toward the dour, was one of the most delightful things to come out of the '80s. With the exception of 2000's High Fidelity, Cusack spent the aughts in a serious rut (Serendipity, Martian Child), so it's good to see him come back, even in something this ludicrous. He plays Adam, the semistraight man of the enterprise: reasonably successful in business but disastrous in love (his girlfriend just moved out) and in friendship, having long ago ceased calling his old pals Nick (The Office's very funny Craig Robinson...
...They are spending a lot of money on a serious work and doing it during tough economic times, so it's a crapshoot," says Manny Azenberg, who produced Brighton Beach Memoirs for $500,000 in 1983.(See 10 big recession surprises...
Meanwhile, at West Point the essence of the honor code is that “a cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” The code carries the serious expectation—accompanied by threat of punishment—that students turn in their peers who have violated the honor code or risk violating it themselves...
...Republican stonewall had its roots in a memo that William Kristol wrote in 1993, urging Republicans not to cooperate in any way with Bill Clinton on health care because, among other things, the plan represented "a serious political threat to the Republican Party." In other words, it would make Clinton and the Democrats more popular. Kristol's strategy succeeded in 1994, when Republicans won control of the House and Senate - but it failed in 2010, although Republicans, misled by momentary anti-reform polls that mostly reflect public confusion, seem intent on pushing "repeal." It remains likely that Democrats will lose...