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...institutions to do so. She could forego checks and balances, allow business as usual and relieve pressure from former warlords. But, says former chairman of the U.N. experts panel, Art Blundell, "we know where that kind of business as usual leads. Among countries recovering from conflict, more than half slip back into it within a decade. Why? The bad guys get the resources...
...would necessarily have to go forward without any significant GOP support. But diluting the bill too much - say, by making the public plan a fallback, to be created only if private insurers fail to bring down health-care costs, as some have suggested - risks allowing liberal Democratic support to slip away. Meanwhile, Democratic Senators are balking at Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus' proposal to pay for much of the health overhaul by imposing taxes for the first time ever on some of the health benefits that workers get from their employers. But absent those new taxes, Democrats may have...
...many other women - wives of the 4.2 million men who have been laid off since the recession began. In fact, according to recent data, it is likely that more than 2 million American women are married to someone who has been handed a pink slip during this recession. Compare that to the approximately 1.4 million women who have lost a job, and it appears that the majority of women may be experiencing our Great Recession's mass job losses not as a laid-off worker but as the spouse of one. And while a lot of attention has been paid...
...other families, the cuts are less drastic, but they serve as a daily reminder of the new financial stress families face after the pink slip arrives. Family vacations are put on hold, kids' summer camps and sports programs are eliminated, air-conditioning is used less, movies and even cable are cut or reduced, new clothes and haircuts are postponed and family dinners at restaurants are increasingly reserved for special occasions. To be sure, many of these cuts affect both the husband and wife, but women - even those who work outside the home - still take on more household responsibilities, including cooking...
...should drop all charges against the Church, and the legislature should revise the rules immediately. We don’t need to register every person marching outside the pearly gates, just the guy trying to slip Saint Peter a few coins. Moreover, it would help both church and state if a court didn’t settle every dispute. Otherwise, we may see the day when the penitent Catholic, at the start of Confession, instead of saying “Bless me Father, for I have sinned,” demands, “Bless me Father...