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...very much doubt that the comment by Travis R. Kavulla ’06 against graduate student unionization is going to persuade many readers (Comment, March 12). Still, one would hope that the author of such an essay would at least be conversant with the basic issues at hand. This doesn’t seem to be the case...
...handful of states have embraced the Medicaid idea. In New Mexico, for example, 6,238 Medicaid recipients have family members or friends providing basic, nonmedical care for them at a fee of $9 an hour, says Crystal Mata, manager of the program for the state's human-services department. Nearly 60% of those receiving care are 65 or older. Caregivers are required to take 12 hours of training each year, including CPR and first aid. The training is provided by 107 social-service agencies in the state, says Suzette Lindemuth, director of Senior Living Systems, a Los Lunas, N.M., personal...
...gangs was caught, and PKF Commander Major-General Tan Huck Gim says another five could be at large, despite PKF efforts to find them. Some local communities fear the gangs are returning militia; Tan says though they may contain some ex-militia, the gangs have more basic motives: "They come to steal and they go back to where they're from because they know the people and the terrain?and they know who there has money...
Kirby makes four basic arguments in favor of preregistration, but the two most compelling ones have nothing to do with undergraduates...
Maybe the rhetoric protesters use makes this fallacy less obvious (and therefore less repugnant to casual supporters), but rhetoric doesn’t change the basic idea. Peace protesters offer a gloomy assessment of the Iraqi people’s ability to sustain democratic rule, pessimism that Bush, despite all of his “axis of evil” rhetoric, thankfully does not share...