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Alina Salganicoff, vice president and director of women’s health policy for the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation, started the discussion by citing the statistic that 18 percent of women in America are uninsured. She attributed this number to women’s role as caregivers or part-time workers rather than breadwinners in their family, resulting in their inability to purchase health care policies of their...
...after former Vice President Al Gore '69 called upon Harvard students and faculty to take action against climate change, panelists from the University’s recently formed Office for Sustainability further entreated students to cooperate with administration on campus sustainability efforts...
...juxtaposed with the song “What a Wonderful World,” the result is a cliché that’s been used before to greater effect. The jokes themselves are mostly cheap-shots that pander to a liberal audience—at one point, Vice President Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) snaps at Karl Rove (Toby Jones), “I’m really confused as to what you’re doing in this room.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Arts review, "W.," misattributed a quotation to the character of Vice President Cheney, played by Richard Dreyfuss. In fact, the quote was from the character of Colin Powell, played by Jeffrey Wright...
Perhaps, but in the short run it's more likely to make the U.S. more determined to do its own offshore drilling. Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials point to Cuba's petro fortunes as justification for opening more of America's coastline to oil production. Recent polls in U.S. coastal states like Florida support that idea, despite environmentalist complaints that both U.S. and Cuban offshore rigs will foul the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, embargo proponents on Capitol Hill have sponsored bills that would, among other sanctions, deny visas to the executives of foreign oil companies that...