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...This time around, AARP is pleased that the Administration intends to insure the aged against the often ruinous costs of long-term care and spread the extra costs among the population at large. The organization is noncommittal, so far, on the idea of folding Medicare into a wider health scheme...
...lobbying legislatures and backing local candidates. Now that Perot has built an army, it is itching to fight battles over such issues as taxes and legislative term limits. But Perot won't let them do so, leading disgruntled Perotistas to claim the group has become like a giant pyramid scheme, existing only for the purpose of growing larger. The dispute has produced a sharp discrepancy between Perot's self-image as a mere servant of the volunteers and his need to impose discipline on a movement fueled by independence. "I'm Ross, you're the boss," he tells his followers...
Vasiljevic had little trouble meeting the interest payments at first. Western experts say his bank ran a classic Ponzi scheme, using new deposits to pay the interest on old ones. At the same time, diplomats say, Vasiljevic used his customers' hard currency to buy sanctioned goods like oil on the black market and sell it for a handsome profit. Vasiljevic denies all the charges. "The wonderful thing about sanctions is that they create real profit opportunities," says a State Department official. "When you have these rates of inflation, anytime you can use someone else's money for a short time...
...truth when even a child can see it: against the evidence, the President recently denied that his stimulus plan was ever a centerpiece of his economic program, much as he once erroneously denied that his pledge of tax relief for the middle class was the linchpin of the scheme he propounded so successfully during the Democratic primaries. Backtracking on campaign promises is par for the course (and often prudent), but cavalier dissembling strains a President's credibility and complicates his task immeasurably...
...report will probably have the greatest impact on a committee, chaired by Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, which is charged with formulating a long-term scheme for the College's race relations policy. It is unclear whether the committee will release any recommendations before the end of the semester...