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...Texas, which in 2001 became the first state to grant such tuition benefits, fewer than 8,000 undocumented immigrants--out of a public college population of more than 1 million--got reduced rates last year. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter immigration rules, says it is more a matter of principle: "Extending in-state tuition is a way of legitimizing their presence. It is back-door amnesty...
...alternative legislative approach to the insurance crisis is tighter regulation of insurance companies. At the federal level, trial lawyers and consumer advocates are pressing for repeal of the insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws. That exemption allows insurers to share information and, according to their opponents, engage in collusive premium-setting policies that would be illegal in any other industry. In state legislatures, many proposed bills would enlarge the authority of insurance commissioners to block arbitrary policy cancellations and gargantuan premium increases. The Florida department of insurance has written a proposed bill that would require insurers to disclose what...
...mildly encouraging sign is that a growing number of legislators seem to recognize that, just as the crisis has no single cause, it cannot have any single solution. They are proposing various combinations of tighter insurance regulation and tort reform. A bill on the verge of enactment by the Minnesota legislature would set up "joint underwriting associations" to issue liability policies, written by the state, to customers who could not get commercial insurance; any losses would be picked up jointly by the state's insurers. But to limit those losses, the bill also would restrict punitive damages, among other tort...
...world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian...
...world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian. "Munch by Himself" is billed as a survey of the artist's self-portraiture. But whether nailed to a cross in Golgotha (1900) or lying in a pool of blood as the assassinated French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat...