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...these pieces take time," says Christopher Anders, the ACLU's senior legislative counsel. "It's hard to see how the government can short-circuit the significant start-up time that's going to be needed. "After all this work," he said of the commissions, "we'll see if they end up getting used...
After insurers last week turned on health-care reform with a pair of sharply critical reports, it was only natural that Democrats would start worrying that other key industry players might drop their (already cautious) support of the ambitious overhaul. It was also no surprise that Senate majority leader Harry Reid would invite the American Medical Association (AMA) and 10 other doctors' groups in for a meeting. But what came out of that session, critics say, is too high a price for maintaining physicians' backing: a stand-alone, unfunded bill on the Senate floor this week that would hand doctors...
...Deco settee and enjoy the auctioneer's banter: "Now here's a tiger-fabric chaise longue. Remember Eartha Kitt? She would have liked it, but if you take this home I think your husband would definitely leave you." Sales are every Monday at 5 p.m., and lots start as low as $20. See criterion-auctioneers.co.uk for details...
CHISWICK Chiswick Auctions, located in a quiet suburb among terraced houses and industrial units, is known for fine art, antiques and collectibles. Bidding is serious, prices start from about $50, and the crowd is large. You may end up in an episode of the BBC's Cash in the Attic, which is sometimes filmed here. Auctions are held every Tuesday from 12 noon. See chiswickauctions.co.uk for details...
...genuine attempt to change the way policing is done, but it will take a generation to make a start, not one or five or 10 years," says Tom Phillips, co-director of Dancing with the Devil, a new film about traffickers and cops in a Rio favela. "But resources are stretched, and they are doing it in just a handful of communities out of a thousand. If they tried doing it in 20 or 50, then they'd do a bad job in all of them." (Read "Can Rio Handle the 2016 Olympics...