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...value of the health care reform bill is debatable--30 million people may get coverage that may or may not be worthwhile--I can't understand why anyone would not be outraged that the government is forcing them to buy private insurance from an industry that routinely pays CEOs seven figures while denying sick, dying people coverage. How is that not outrageous...
...boldest attacks on the Afghan capital since Hamid Karzai became President, insurgents laid siege to several areas of Kabul on Jan. 18. Suicide bombers blew themselves up near Karzai's palace and the Education Ministry, while another three of the seven perpetrators took over a shopping complex across from the Justice Ministry. All the attackers were killed, as were two civilians and three members of the Afghan security forces. At least 70 people were wounded. The incident--a reminder of the Taliban's ability to strike at the shaky Afghan government--came as Kabul mulled a program aimed at persuading...
Gibson, 54, who seven years ago turned from starring in hit movies to directing The Passion of the Christ, the all-time top R-rated and foreign-language film, became more notorious recently for being an off-screen road warrior. His 2006 drunk-driving conviction, and the slurs he made about Jews to the arresting officer, dented his rep and put a big question mark next to his chances for returning to the superstar class. Edge of Darkness, based on a 1985 Brit TV drama about a cop searching for his daughter's killers, bears a resemblance to last year...
Gibson and Washington weren't the only veteran movie men fighting for tickets at the wickets. Just out of this weekend's top dozen were two movies starring flinty hero types who made their names in the 1970s. Sixty-seven-year-old Harrison Ford, a.k.a. Han Solo, lent his sullen machismo to Extraordinary Measures, the first theatrical release from CBS Films - but this do-gooder drama had a made-for-TV feel, and after a cruddy opening week, it fell into the abyss, with a $2,575,000 weekend take in 2,549 theaters. The disease-of-the-week movie...
...Seven secessionist candidates declared for seats in the state senate. Among them is Robert Wagner, 46, an economist who is also a computing consultant with Oracle Inc. Wagner, who homesteads with his wife and six-year-old son in the Green Mountains, says that current U.S. law enables multinational corporations to abuse Vermont as a "resource colony." Citing a 2008 study by the University of Vermont, Wagner says the state stands to gain over $1 billion a year in revenue by taxing equitably the corporate behemoths that exploit Vermont's "commons," which includes everything from the state's groundwater, surface...