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...Iranian cold war has shown some signs of a thaw, Tehran's continued defiance of world opinion on its nuclear program notwithstanding. Obama has begun the highest-level diplomatic engagement with Tehran in 30 years and refrained from calling for the overthrow of the regime, even amid mass Iranian protests last summer aimed at accomplishing exactly that. Media coverage of the diplomatic dance between Washington and Tehran focuses on Iran's nuclear program, but by pursuing a fundamentally different relationship with the Islamic Republic, the Obama Administration is also quietly conceding that Iran's militancy is different from the terrorism...
...Hanes had made her own reputation in Iowa as an aggressive prosecutor of child abuse charges. The July 1999 Los Angeles Times story has her laughing at public speculation in Iowa that she unduly influenced Bennett's diagnoses. But a 2007 federal appeals court opinion on a 1995 Iowa shaken-slammed baby murder case said that she had improperly ordered medical evidence in the case withheld from the defense, and, in a note, observed that "the evidence of Dr. Bennett's marriage to prosecutor Hanes should have been permitted at trial to imply bias." The appeals court judges said that...
...untested reforms will actually work. To skeptics, that seems too good to be true, especially with millions of new patients coming into the system. While families' health bills may go down, they say, costs for the government - and ultimately taxpayers - are sure to rise. "I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health care spending rather than restrain it," Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey S. Flier wrote in a scathing Nov. 17 Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care Debate: Your...
...things stand, opinion surveys (a far from infallible guide) put senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III in the lead. A low-profile figure during nine years in Congress, the bookish-looking lawmaker was pushed to the limelight just a few months ago after the death of his admired mother Corazon, a former president and symbol of democacy during the anti-Marcos struggle. Some pundits predicted his star would quickly fade, but that hasn't happened. Manuel Villar, a rags-to-riches real estate developer born in Manila's Tondo port area, is placing second. Behind him is ousted former president Joseph...
...Read "Opinion: Here's an Idea Obama Isn't Likely to Hear at His Jobs Summit...