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...Michael Moore: Canadians as a whole are pretty happy with their system. Yes, it?s a flawed system, and the main flaw is that it?s underfunded. The [in-depth] answers exist in articles and essays, and I?ll have them up on my website...
...Cuba, yes, when I?ve got a film crew there, they?re going to show us their best. But there?s a reason the World Health Organization ranks their health-care system [among] the best in the Third World and that people from Latin America come there for their health care. There?s also a reason Cubans live on average a month longer than we do. I?m not trumpeting Castro or his regime. I just want to say to fellow Americans, ?C?mon, we?re the United States! If they can do this...
...cost paid in management attention and focus may be even greater. The single greatest stroke of Rick Wagoner's seven-year tenure as GM CEO, for example, was probably his well-timed decision to use $18 billion in mostly borrowed money to shore up the pension fund in 2003 (yes, $18 billion does seem to be something of a magic number here). That move, coupled with the stock market's subsequent rise and the investment savvy of GM's pension managers, may well have averted bankruptcy. Can it be any surprise that the company's board would rather have...
...against torture, even when presented with a Fox News scenario in which terrorists with information about an imminent attack had been captured. The other candidates said they opposed torture but favored "enhanced interrogation techniques." Moderator Brit Hume asked McCain if he thought "enhanced ... techniques" were torture. He said yes, which didn't seem to go over with the audience but endeared him to sane people everywhere else...
...people say, 'He's the real Al Gore now' or 'He's changed,'" says Tipper. "Excuse me! He hasn't changed that much. This is somebody I have always known." The old Gore, she says, "was an unfair stereotype painted by cliques in the media and Republican opponents. Now, yes, there were constraints"-the vice presidency, the Monica mess, the campaign-"that weighed on him. And, yes, you grow and you change and you learn. So I see the same person, and I also see a new person who is free and liberated and doing exactly what he wants...