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...state notified Health Alliance officials last week that it would not reimburse the system for that sum as part of broader state budget cuts of $200 million in Medicaid payments to providers...
...derision, as Minnesota Nice. For Coleman's purposes, being safe and boring seemed especially wise when contrasted with the loud, funny, inexperienced and sometimes offensive Saturday Night Live alumnus he was running against. Franken is very smart, but he's the opposite of boring. And given his résumé, he couldn't exactly sell himself as safe...
...Some anonymous people caused great damage to the U.S., the world economy and many innocent people. Why do you avoid telling us their names? I would like to see something like a scoreboard, showing the names of the wrongdoers, what money they made and the sum of money needed to get out of the mess. Alfred Feldmann, BREMEN, GERMANY...
...Local businesses are trying to hearten people by throwing open their doors. One Reykjavík restaurant, Á naestum grösum, has changed itself into a soup kitchen offering downtrodden Icelanders a free bowl of barley-vegetable soup and a slice of bread, while just down the street a few local bars have begun selling "recession beer" at $2.60 a glass compared with the normal price of $6 or so. But with more layoffs and further turmoil expected, it will take more than hearty stew and a pint of cheap cheer to rescue this nation from economic despair...
...reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than on the taste of the item itself. (Tripe, nota bene, is cow stomach.) These are the people who are hopelessly easy to please.I am undeniably...