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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his skills in balancing American interests with diplomacy are vital for our future. John Kerry will be able to build the alliances that George Bush could not because he is in tune with the nuances of international relations. John Kerry has a solid plan to rid us of dependence on Middle Eastern oil, so that we can begin to make real changes to our policy in that region. John Kerry, when elected, will update our foreign policy—bring it in tune with the realities of our world, not the fantasies of Bush?...
...more than the government reimburses them: $A25.70 for a consultation of 15 min. or less. Labor under Mark Latham, a Whitlam prot?g?, has pledged to give doctors an extra $A5 for each bulk-billed consultation, plus monthly bonuses if they reach certain targets. Latham has affirmed Labor's "rock-solid determination" to lift the proportion of consultations that are bulk billed from 70% to 80%. Last week he made an additional pledge to make more visits to specialists free as part of a $A1 billion injection into public hospitals...
Lucky for Harvard, coach Tim Murphy figured out the necessity of having a solid kicker a year ago. Tired of going for fourth-and-tens on the opponents 15 yard line and having to face reporters armed solely with the statement, “I’d be less than honest if I said I had any faith in our kicking unit,” Murphy went out in offseason and rectified the situation...
...piece that ran on Friday, “the UC’s Dangerous Game” (Op-Ed, Sept. 24), a solid and indisputable point was made (namely, that the Undergraduate Council should avoid reckless and shortsighted spending). But then it went on to say that the council was actually doing so and that a financial calamity was imminent. And that is why the column was disingenuous in spirit as well as effect...
...that won't be easy: I've never seen George Bush lose a debate. He is a brilliant minimalist. Kerry by contrast is all oratorical flab--although he did begin to show some signs of life last week in a solid speech to the National Guard convention, in which he blasted Bush's "fantasy of spin" about Iraq. It is a powerful fantasy, though. And it is easy to predict Bush's response to any Kerry criticism about Iraq: "My opponent is too pessimistic," the President will say. "See, what he doesn't understand is that the President...