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...There is a simpler reform that would ensure the popular-vote winner a majority in the electoral college: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the founding fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the founders fully expected the electoral college...
...More importantly, it will restore the patients right to choose his or her health and mental health professionals The initiative calls for at least 90 percent of all premiums to be used for patient care, public health, and training/research, and no more than 10 percent for administrative costs, with simpler paperwork and administration. These fundamental reforms of the system will hold down health care spending while improving the quality of care we all receive...
...hope people will be pleased with [the site]," said Schnare. "We hope it will help students answer the simpler questions, like 'Did I get credit from the library?' and 'Did that payment ever come...
...game itself, I have no real objection. Admittedly it is a simpler, less sophisticated version of cricket (which is played in MANY more countries than baseball), but I don't think Americans should be ashamed of that. As kids we usually learn to play checkers as a primer for the more intellectually challenging game of chess. And it is true that cricket has many subtleties that have thus far eluded most Americans. But you are a young nation, and I'm sure that as you continue to master the simple art of slugging an oversize ball...
...There has been [a debate] as to what the value has been in the interim agreements [signed since Oslo]. There are those who thought they would provide the lubricant for permanent status [negotiations] because they were going to be able to work out simpler problems before they got to the really difficult issues. It was evident last summer that instead of being a lubricant it looked more like sandpaper, and that it made sense to move to the permanent status issues. We did that because we were concerned about the violence. But I think that there...