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Marsalis was introduced by Jessica H. Davis, Patricia Bowman chair at the Graduate School of Education. He then gave Davis the Sunny Days Award, which recognizes those who improve and brighten children's lives and is offered by the company which produces the Sesame Street television program. Marsalis is a member of the PBS program's selection committee...
...campaign took a few unexpected turns on Thursday, when a Maine reporter broke the story that Bush had been arrested for driving under the influence in that state in 1976, and when Bush said that Democrats wanted to run Social Security "like it is some kind of federal program...
Napster, as everyone knows, is one neat little program. It took a vexing problem--namely, that the record industry didn't want people to be able to download MP3's, so web users had to search clandestinely for them in the unreliable nooks and crannies of the Internet--and fixed it in an ingenious way. Napster created a service in which users bring their own MP3's together, ready to be indexed by Napster, and then share them with each other. No MP3 song has ever gone through one of the company's servers; instead, they're sent directly from...
IMPACT: Depends on the stock market. The $1 trillion price tag means the program may go bankrupt 10 years earlier; to cover the cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...
PLAN: Insure more low- and middle-income children through the Children's Health Insurance Program, and allow CHIP parents to buy subsidized coverage. Pass a patients' bill of rights with the right to sue. Add a prescription benefit to Medicare, and lock away $435 billion to ensure that it stays solvent...