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Republican House Leaders scrambled in the wee hours of Nov. 22 in an effort to get last-minute G.O.P. holdouts to pass President Bush's Medicare-reform bill. They succeeded, but now even some allies of the bill are upset at the dealmaking that enabled it to happen. The American Hospital Association (A.H.A.), an important supporter of the bill, is furious about a last-minute agreement Speaker Dennis Hastert struck to get California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's yes vote. Hastert promised a vote next year on a bill Rohrabacher plans to introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens...
DIED. ROBERT DEWITT, 87, an Episcopal bishop who upset the church hierarchy by taking part in the first ordination of women as priests in 1974; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In his six decades as a churchman, he campaigned against social inequity, racism and the Vietnam...
...Tuesday President George W. Bush, at a press conference to mark Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first visit to the White House, appeared to side with Beijing by issuing a rebuke to Chen, signaling that Taiwan's President should not move ahead with the referendum for fear it would upset the diplomatic ambiguity that allows Taiwan and China to remain at arm's length. "The comments and actions made by the leader of Taiwan indicate that he may be willing to make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," a position, Bush said, that the U.S. "opposes...
...least one signer said he was upset by the University’s failure to respond thus...
...Chair Raquel E. Arid ’04 submitted her first chapter to her thesis adviser last week, hoping to get some thoughtful feedback and instead just got some artful feedback—a landscape doodled across the first page. A visibly upset Arid calmed down after friends assured her that she was still a good, decent person and that her thesis adviser also respects her as a person—just not as a thesis writer...