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...idling mode. For a good week, there was little news - about his estate, the toxicology tests, his final moments - so the talk became about how little news there was. There were the prime-time specials, the morning-show reports, the commentators and endless clichés. (He was a barrier breaker, a chameleon, a Peter Pan - I've used some of those myself...
...Public Plan. Yes, the House version has a government-run option, which Democrats say would be crucial to holding down costs and to provide competition that would, in President Barack Obama's words, "keep insurance companies honest," but which Republicans say would be a deal-breaker. Still, the House model appears to be far weaker than one described in early drafts of the HELP Committee's legislation. If those early drafts are any indication, the HELP version would look a lot like Medicare, with the rates that it reimburses hospitals, doctors and other health-care providers linked to those paid...
...into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...competed with are the ones I’ll see in North Carolina.” Classmate Brittan Smith also surpassed the NCAA qualifier for the second time this season. Her 6.02-meter leap in the long jump event earned her a share of second place, though a tie-breaker jump relegated her to third. “For [Brittan] to do that at the ECAC Championships going into NCAAs is a big confidence booster for her,” Saretsky said. And though the women’s 4x800-meter relay team finished eighth in the final yesterday, running...
...have it on Facebook," says Annie Geitner, a college sophomore who has had the same boyfriend for more than a year. "So that made me even more determined to not to put it up there." Others, like Trevor Babcock, consider the Facebook status a relationship deal-breaker. "I'm not willing to date anyone exclusively unless she feels comfortable going Facebook-public," he says...