Word: seriousness
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...card to withdraw it. Once you are abroad, Medicare will not pay for any medical expenses. In some countries expats are able to participate in the national insurance plan or health system. Many retirees simply pay local doctors as they go and return to the U.S. for any serious problem. A number of companies, like BUPA International, will provide coverage to expats; organizations like American Citizens Abroad can help them find a plan...
...expertly cross-examined the Gore team's statistician, Yale professor Nicolas Hengartner. The professor had to admit that he had in fact never inspected a certain ballot that he claimed to have examined in his affidavit. The embarrassing admission didn't change Hengartner's overall point that there were serious problems with punch-card voting, but it may have damaged his credibility with Sauls...
...running the White House and federal agencies to directing foreign and defense policy to negotiating with Congress. And the 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate would turn the Vice President's largely ceremonial role as president of the upper chamber into something far more serious, summoning Cheney to Capitol Hill for every important vote in case he's needed to break a tie. Last week even Bush's syntax reinforced the idea that Cheney was in charge. "One of these days all this is going to stop," Bush said of the Florida legal battles, "and Dick...
...grown-up director and Proof of Life is one of those all too rare adult films that isn't interested in being hip or catering to the MTV generation. That alone makes it a picture worthy of admiration and gives hope that there are still a few serious, no-frills commercial filmmakers out there. Proof of Life is a flawed vision, but the fact that it even has a vision still puts this sweeping adventure-epic ahead of the game...
...state of contemporary verse. Indeed, Masters programs at prestigious schools (of which Iowa is the most famous) seem increasingly out of touch with the imaginative energy so consistent of underground communities. But today's problems are also economic. When publishing was cheaper, poets could devote their time to the serious business of writing verse-and keep their sense of humor about it. "Now," Fagin laments, "poets are not serious and no fun. One cannot have fun when one has to work...