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...voters will start to receive retirement account statements in the mail. On October 4th and November 1st, the government releases the latest jobless figures. Conventional wisdom says that if the numbers are bad - as Democrats surreptitiously hope they will be - the GOP, as the party in power, stands to suffer at the hands of frustrated and angry voters...
...Michael J. Coppola (R-Foxboro), one of Rappaport’s few supporters among the Massachusetts Republican House delegation, predicted he would suffer little legislative fallout from his support for the losing candidate...
Reformers point to California, where jury awards for noneconomic damages, such as pain and suffering, are capped at $250,000 and malpractice rates have held relatively steady over the past year. With tort reform, says Ron Neupauer, a vice president of Medical Insurance Exchange of California, "you don't have the emotion-laden blockbuster verdicts." But plaintiffs' lawyers protest that curbing noneconomic damages will disproportionately impact women, children and the elderly, who typically suffer less "economic" harm, such as lost wages, when they are hurt...
...humility. In high schools and in homes, students, parents and teachers need to study history, talk through current events and refrain from broad theory. More and more, we have to watch our language and resist easy generalizations whenever they may occur. Dismissive of intellectual modesty, academia and government still suffer these pitfalls, speaking expansively, rather than narrowly and concretely. As individual Americans, we have the opportunity—if not the obligation—to foster a new paradigm whereby scholars and policymakers take after a public that respects the complexity of the issues and approaches them with limited goals...
...patients and patients' families pay careful attention to the dosage and distribution of what can often be a dizzying array of medications. This is especially true if you're keeping an eye on prescriptions for a young child, an elderly person or someone with compromised immunity, populations that can suffer much more dangerous responses to drug errors than someone whose immune system is up to speed...