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...Account (HSA), which allows people who buy high deductible health insurance policies to save their money, tax-free, in an HSA to use for routine medical expenses. This tax relief reduces the disproportionate tax subsidy given to organized health care policies and allows Americans an alternative to the current standard. Yet, although the money contributed to an HSA is tax-free, it is not yet tax deductible like traditional health premiums.The assumption with HSA is that health insurance should be used to protect against catastrophic medical costs, not day-to-day predictable costs—much like any other kind...
Such determination to get the full story was standard practice at the Courier. Gale, covering state and local politics from her bureau in Tuskegee, relied on a network of informants who were eventually willing to feed her vital tips. One of her informants revealed vote-tampering methods that white officials were using when black residents tried to vote...
...Council in a 170 to 4 vote, and this approval marks a step in the right direction for the U.N., whose former Human Rights Commission had been discredited by its questionable membership of such nations as Cuba and Iran. The U.S. justified its vote by heralding its own high standards for human rights, while lambasting the current resolution for its lenient admission procedures. John R. Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., sharply criticized the newly established Human Rights Council, calling it only marginally better than its predecessor. The U.S. proposal, unlike the one that passed, required member nations...
...significant element of the operetta: it’s not really a happy ending. As the story isn’t known to everyone, I won’t reveal its conclusion, but suffice it to say that Gilbert and Sullivan were obviously trying to aim higher than your standard crowd-pleaser. Keeping in that tradition of classically British humor, the performers do a great job of allowing us to laugh in the face of other people’s misfortune; only the most sensitive of viewers would consider this production a tragedy...
...knowledgeable officials told TIME on Saturday that Bush had, indeed, unilaterally declassified the parts of the NIE following criticism from Wilson, without using the standard declassification process that the White House went through later. The officials said the President told Vice President Cheney that the excerpts should be provided to the press, but had played no role in the actual leak to Judith Miller of The New York Times. "The conversation between the President and the Vice President was only about declassifying," a senior administration official said. "The President made the executive decision, and still believes it was the right...