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...secured commitments from Ukraine, Chile and others to safeguard nuclear materials. And in May he hopes to finalize new sanctions to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions. These are accomplishments of a statesman who dreamed, as a student 27 years ago, of bringing the wisdom of "Thoreau, Jefferson and Whitman to bear on the twisted logic" of the nuclear arms race...
...political ramifications of the Anthem Blue Cross story don't end at the Beltway. Steve Poizner, the California insurance commissioner who has been aggressively pursuing Anthem, is running for governor, though he is trailing far behind fellow GOP candidate (and former eBay CEO) Meg Whitman. Poizner says he supports reform of the U.S. health care system but generally opposes the Democratic House and Senate bills. Dave Jones, a Democratic state assemblyman, is running to replace Poizner in the commissioner's office on a platform of changing California law to require health insurers to get state approval before increasing rates...
...more suburban. Smaller towns will outpace big cities, thanks to widespread telecommuting and the desire for community. Adding 100 million people will certainly change features of society, but overall, Kotkin believes, the U.S. will be stronger for it. The optimistic faith in American exceptionalism is straight out of Walt Whitman, but Kotkin, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future in New York City, bolsters his analysis with an army of statistics. It's a welcome view in a difficult time, yet it's also one that dismisses certain realities--China's economic might, for example--a little...
...spouse is pretty much the only person you can't cut out of a will," says Wynne Whitman, an estate-planning lawyer in New Jersey. Although the law differs from state to state, attorneys say statutes and courts tend to favor surviving spouses in determining inheritances, especially if there are minor children. (The Hoppers have a 6-year-old.) The court might even posthumously change a prenuptial agreement, which the Hoppers also have and which Victoria Hopper is challenging...
...even the not particularly rich sometimes want to disinherit a spouse. "There are a surprising number of people who have been separated for decades but have never been divorced," says Whitman. She advises clients who have been given grim prognoses to be thorough: divorce, rewrite the will and check all beneficiary designations. "You don't want the spouse from three spouses ago getting the life insurance...