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...companies - though notably not for individuals. One thing you won't see are more attempts to buy off disgruntled voters with hard cash. The Senate Republican proposal to give every taxpayer $100 caused an outcry around the country and disgust among fiscal conservatives. "People see through gimmicks," said Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, who calls the $100 rebate "goofy political theatrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oil Fix Congress Won't Touch | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

...Eliot, I would think they were 70-year-old migrant workers in a particularly harrowing Steinbeck novel. But they aren’t. They are really doing their dissertation on interior space in the plays of Aphra Behn.Type 3: The “You went to the University of Wisconsin, so you clearly hate me” TF.These TFs are the most proudly stylish of the bunch. They are usually outfitted in “very unique” items from thrift stores or, more commonly, in Express pants.In general, these TFs are better at traveling to third-world countries...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Trend is Nigh: Teaching the "Fellows" How to Dress | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Third in the nation is a title most teams in the country would take in a heartbeat.Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew is not “most teams.”After finishing behind Princeton and Wisconsin at the IRA national championships the past two years, the Black and White came into the season expecting a change.The team wanted to get back on top, and the No.1 Radcliffe crew has done just that.With the men’s heavyweight team losing a head-to-head race for the first time in three years, the Black and White...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PREVIEW: Radcliffe Aiming To Dismiss Princeton | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

...September Friedman had watched long enough. An internist in a practice that covers much of southern Wisconsin, she went to her radiology department to schedule a mammogram. The administrators turned her down: her HMO paid for routine mammograms every two years, and she'd had one 18 months before. "I said, 'Wait a minute, I feel a lump. This is not routine.' They still wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...pilfered $100,000 when he was the state chair of Gramm's reelection campaign in 1996. Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered that the driver of the truck was illegally licensed, the tragedy helped set off the broader Ryan corruption investigation, which revealed a rampant scheme in which state workers were trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Governor Goes Down | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

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