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...Democrats, health care has long been a merciless minefield. Hillary Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...
...anxiety-addled taxi-driving Tom on Love My Way, the globe-trotting TV drama about Sydney-style family dysfunction on which he began life as one of the show's writers. But whether it was turning sober or 30, the past 18 months have seen this wunderkind transform into Renaissance Man. As artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company's new experimental wing, Wharf 2LOUD, Cowell has become Barnum to a new breed of theater writing with its "Vow of Clarity," for which he leads by example. Premiering on April 24, his new play Self Esteem is a cracker...
That could transform politics in Senegal, where even folks sufficiently long in the tooth to have voted in each of the country's general elections have seen only two parties returned to power. The leftist Socialist Party held sway for 40 years. That rule was broken in 2000 by Wade's liberal Senegalese Democratic Party (pds). Although back in power, it's by no means clear that the pds should look forward to repeating its predecessor's four-decade stint. Despite solid economic growth - 5% on average - during Wade's first term, most people interviewed in the streets say they...
...will Europe respond? For all the babble of clashing ideas, there's more harmony than you might think. Historic promises have been made on aid, debt and even the thorny subject of trade. Aggressive progress on these, matched by advances in fighting the evils of corruption in Africa, could transform the continent and prevent the fire from spreading. As a group, the E.U. countries have promised to commit 0.7 percent of GDP to the poorest of the poor. How Europe works to keep that promise is as important to Europe as it is to Africa...