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Going into the Hawaii game, Michigan was ranked 14th in the BCS, and its schedule was ranked 11th. But since strength of schedule is calculated based on a weighted combination of the sum of the records of opponents and the sum of the records of opponents' opponents, the extra 12th game against Hawaii--a winless team playing a weak schedule--crippled Michigan's strength of schedule ranking. The Wolverines plummeted entirely out of the published BCS rankings...
...future savings on interest payments would go to Medicare. But that is a temporary fix, which is why some politicians are daring to say out loud that privatizing much or all of Medicare is inevitable. "People are moving in the direction of being essentially given a voucher, a certain sum of money, with the ability to have maximum flexibility to shop for whatever it is that suits them," House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich told reporters last week in a conference call arranged by the Republican National Committee...
...PLAN Bush would allow the elderly to stay in traditional fee-for-service Medicare or provide them with a fixed sum of money to pay for private insurance plans, some of which will offer a prescription-drug benefit. How much recipients pay and what benefits they receive depends on the plan they choose...
...summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness. That, anyway, is the current state of play. It could yet change...
...future savings on interest payments would go to Medicare. But that is a temporary fix, which is why some politicians are daring to say out loud that privatizing much or all of Medicare is inevitable. "People are moving in the direction of being essentially given a voucher, a certain sum of money, with the ability to have maximum flexibility to shop for whatever it is that suits them," House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich told reporters last week in a conference call arranged by the Republican National Committee...