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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe spoke to a packed audience at the Institute of Politics forum Friday evening, detailing his plans for Colombian social development and responding to pointed questions about the possibility that he will seek a third term in office...
Uribe’s plan to seek a third term in office by amending the Colombian Constitution took center stage when he began fielding questions from the audience. Were Uribe to succeed, it would mark the second time he has passed an amendment in order to remain in power...
...referendum that is pending to allow yourself to serve a third term could set a dangerous precedent for future leaders,” Jake Sloane ’12 told the President, before asking about Uribe’s reasons for seeking office yet again...
...overstuffed chair, Obama has warned about the rocketing increase in health-care insurance - 5.5% last year, according to one study - and promised to bend the cost curve down in the future. He has described changes to the health-care system that could bring down costs for families and long-term government deficits. But his numbers are hypothetical. "If we are able to slow the growth of health-care costs by just one-tenth of 1% each year," he announced in a recent address to Congress, "it will actually reduce deficits by $4 trillion over the long term." (See pictures...
...theories behind the proposed cost savings are well documented. But he is promising something that cannot be demonstrated just yet, so instead of using the number he originally did, he has now settled on phrases like "It's going to start driving down our costs over the long term...