Word: townes
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...mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called "the paranoid style" - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington had been replaced with a Munich beer hall...
...While proponents argue that today's seniors will feel little or no difference in their levels of coverage, many Medicare beneficiaries are still worried, as was evident during August's heated town halls. In response, several Senators have introduced legislation to scale back those cuts. "I will offer an amendment to grandfather in all the senior citizens on Medicare so that they're not going to be cut from the Medicare Advantage," said Florida Senator Bill Nelson. He plans to offset that by asking pharmaceutical firms to apply the same rebates they currently give to Medicaid patients to Medicare recipients...
...Divan Kurucesme, tel: (90-212) 257 7150, for a swim in the leafy, secluded pool overlooking the Bosphorus. Afterward, I'd grab a scoop of pistachio ice cream at Mini in Bebek, tel: (90-212) 257 1070, an Istanbul tradition and the best ice cream in town...
...about an uncontrollable crowd of seething young students. They have reasons to be fearful. The government shut down campuses early because of the presidential election, but students nevertheless led the mass protests that followed the announcement of the results. Roughly half of Tehran's students are from out of town, and these students were sent packing in mid-June. They are now streaming back to start the new school year, swelling the size of the student population to levels not seen since the election. The government is already hinting that it may shut down universities for the entire fall term...
...past few years, the people of Trokavec, Czech Republic, have been convinced that America was positioning their quiet town of about 100, an hour south of Prague, at the center of a giant bull...