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TAYLOR SWIFT, singer, describing how she felt when rapper Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech for Best Female Video during the MTV Video Music Awards to complain that another nominee, Beyoncé, had "one of the best videos of all time...
MICHAEL JORDAN, in a Sept. 11 speech marking his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame...
...main goal of health-care reform, the subject of Obama's speech to Congress, is to cut costs for everyone. Malpractice premiums make up less than 1% of U.S. heath-care spending. Doctors argue that "defensive medicine"--the extraneous care they provide out of fear of being sued--costs much more, but the data are unclear. Texas, for example, has not seen health-care spending drop since instituting award caps in 2003. While a 1996 study said caps could cut costs up to 9%, the Congressional Budget Office stated in 2008 that it had "not found sufficient evidence to conclude...
President Barack Obama warned in a speech on Wall Street Sept. 14 that "normalcy cannot lead to complacency." But normalcy is leading to complacency. Consider the financial reforms that Obama's Administration wants to push through Congress: the big ones are creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, giving the Federal Reserve the job of systemic-risk regulator and establishing a "resolution regime" to wind down troubled nonbank financial institutions (like Lehman) and complex bank holding companies. Steps in the right direction? Probably. Truly major reforms? Not so much--and even they may not win congressional approval...
...culmination of the “Say Yes to Drugs†campaign, which has been advertising its message in front of the Science Center for much of this week, came on Saturday with a benefit dance and speech in support of better global access to generic drugs...