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While governors are primarily focused on how their already hurting state budgets could be strained by the expansion of the Medicaid program that is proposed in all the health bills, there are other key responsibilities that could fall to them under the Baucus bill. Most important, the all-important exchanges...
The potential for such a lack of uniformity across the country has only recently become apparent. Just last week, during the markup of the bill, at least two amendments were tacked on to the legislation giving states further latitude. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington drafted an amendment that would allow...
To supply nearly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. and its Western allies rely on road convoys with dozens of trucks to carry in everything from jet fuel to frozen pizza. But increasingly these convoys are coming under savage attack by the Taliban. And experts say that if the...
The main supply arteries into Afghanistan are through mountain passes along the Pakistan border, through the fabled Khyber Pass, near Peshawar, and Spin Boldak in the south. The Khyber Pass was closed down by the Taliban seven times this year, and convoys were unable to get through, according to NATO...
Yet 15 years after the bloodshed, unexplored truths of the Rwandan genocide are beginning to emerge, suggesting that there were many more villains than commonly thought and that not all of them were Hutus. In a book published late last year, Africa expert Gerard Prunier says, for example, that Kagame...