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Mandigo says there are merchant bankers, insurance companies and pension funds looking for places to park their cash that might view Hyatt as a smart investment. "This is something that's fresh, has a strong name behind it, and a good reputation in the industry," he says. "It's kind of like an oasis in the desert in terms of investment opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyatt's IPO: Bad Timing or Family Necessity? | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...blessing and a curse. "One of the problems of a national health service is that there are not the usual incentives for it to be efficient or to find more productive ways of operating," he says. "But at the same time, politicians are not forced into taking a narrow view of what's efficient. In this instance, they can reject threats to staffing levels of doctors, nurses and administrators while accepting other elements of the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Socialized Medicine Be Cost-Effective? | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...disclosing any proprietary information," he says. For-profit health-insurance-industry practices Potter talks about, like rescission - dropping expensive-to-cover policyholders on grounds that they failed to disclose pre-existing health conditions - are not secrets. This is, in fact, how private health insurers make profits. In Potter's view, these practices just need more exposure, which he's happy to provide - on cable news or through his well-read blog for the nonpartisan public-interest group the Center for Media and Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Health-Care Whistle-Blower | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Independent Commission on Turkey report says E.U. leaders should start by challenging popular prejudice, instead of pandering to it. For an example of how popular opinion can change it includes a revealing statistic from the past: in 1954, 51% of French people told pollsters that they had a negative view of the German people and only 29% thought a Franco-German alliance would work. Now, both those countries are standing together in the way of a similar deal with Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty Years On, Turkey Still Pines to Become European | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...making such ambassadorial choices; Roos may turn out to be an excellent envoy. But at this particular juncture in Asian politics, it was inevitable that the appointment looked like an opportunity missed. The U.S.-Japan alliance really has been important to stability in Asia, but its foundations, in my view, have never been quite as secure as its boosters have liked to assert. The Japanese election - it becomes clearer every day - represents a real sea-change in politics there. If the alliance is not now to drift into irrelevance, or worse, some high-level attention to what its purposes might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Yes, Japan Does Want a New Relationship with the U.S. | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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