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Most of us can remember spending prefrosh weekend wandering around the Yard with bright red folders that our hosts weren't merciful enough to tell us to leave in our rooms. That special weekend in spring has always formally been called the "April Visiting Program"—but it looks like that might change soon...
Therese Borchard writes about depression every day on her award-winning blog at Beliefnet.com. But it took a special leap of faith to share the stories of her breakdowns, hospitalizations and ongoing struggle with depression in her new book Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes. "This will do wonders for my chances of future employment," she cracks. TIME writer Amy Sullivan talked with Borchard about the challenges of writing about mental illness (especially one's own) at the writer's home in Annapolis...
...Underscoring the point, both Cook and Stuart Rothenberg, another independent handicapper, on Thursday reclassified the special election in Massachusetts between Coakley and Brown as a "toss-up," a major surprise given that they're running for a seat long held by Ted Kennedy. But the White House has more than a crucial Senate vote riding on the outcome: Tuesday's election will be the first crucial test of the effectiveness of their entire 2010 campaign plan...
...that the Federal Government would pay 100% of the cost of expanding the Medicaid program in Nebraska. The 49 other states, by contrast, would have full federal funding for a few years but would eventually have to pick up part of the tab. As soon as word of the special treatment broke, the deal became known as the "Cornhusker Kickback," and Nelson was roundly mocked. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose state is in serious financial trouble that could be exacerbated by a Medicaid expansion, said in his recent State of the State address that Nebraska "got the corn...
...wake of the attacks, Nelson has done his best to deflect attention from the special arrangement. He insists the deal wasn't his idea, and, in a Jan. 15 letter to Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Nelson asked that special treatment for Nebraska be excluded from the final legislation. In the same letter, however, Nelson repeated something he has been saying since word of his special deal got around - that newly eligible Medicaid enrollees in all states should be fully and permanently paid for by the Federal Government. At first, this seemed like a crude and overly expensive solution...