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...America debates healthcare reform, Britons - and Europeans more widely - have rediscovered how much they love their state-backed health services. Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is a rare example of truly socialized medicine, with universally available treatment administered by the government and funded by the taxpayer. As such, it has become the target of criticism from opponents of President Barack Obama's efforts to introduce greater state involvement in health care, with accusations of "Orwellian" administrators setting a price on life, and doctors abandoning elderly patients...
...longest serving member of the Senate at the time of his death.After a seizure in May 2008, he was diagnosed with a malignant glioma, a type of brain tumor that carries a bleak prognosis in the majority of patients. He underwent surgery and a subsequent aggressive course of cancer treatment in the months following the diagnosis.In the Senate, Kennedy developed a reputation as a leader on social policy issues, championing reforms in areas such as health care, education, and immigration, while leading multiple committees, including, most recently, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.Though...
...Constitutional question," Bradbury argued that the lack of objections from members of Congress following the classified briefing contributed to providing "a relevant measure of contemporary standards." If Bradbury had concluded that extended sleep deprivation did "shock the conscience," the technique would have been illegal under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which applied constitutional standards to the treatment of CIA detainees...
Harvard will create a Safety Advisory Committee and task the University ombudsman with addressing public safety concerns in an effort to improve relations between University police and the community amid long-standing complaints of unfair treatment of black students and professors, University officials announced Friday. The newly adopted measures follow a report examining the Harvard University Police Department’s practices released in April that recommended a series of policy changes to “achieve the shared goal of a welcoming, safe, and open environment.” Following an incident of alleged racial profiling last August, University...
...this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment or doing something, Vicki would relay to me what we needed to get done...