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Medical bills cause about half of bankruptcies, study finds

Liz Kowalczyk | Boston Globe | February 2, 2005

"'The biggest surprise was that 76 percent of people who had a medical-related bankruptcy had health insurance when they first got sick,' said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a doctor at Cambridge Hospital and one of the authors. 'That's really new. No one has asked that before.'" [more]

Child ID System Makes Its Mark

Peter Demarco | Boston Globe | May 23, 2004

"'Our daughter is adopted. Her DNA is different,'" Deirdre Sassaman said. 'We wouldn't have a sample without this program.'" [more]

Kerry's Oratory Style Needs Work

Don Aucoin | Boston Globe | March 25, 2004

"Some exercises Kerry could try, according to Peabody, are to imagine he is talking in a church, then imagine he is talking to someone over the noise of a subway car, then to an audience of children, then to an ailing patient. Kerry should also do breathing exercises to "uncover parts of the voice that may be unfamiliar or covered by habit," Roth said. In giving a speech, she added, he needs to be willing to go "off the page" in the manner of Clinton or Martin Luther King Jr., adjusting to the audience." [more]

DNC to Confine Protesters to Zone Blocks Away

Rick Klein | Boston Globe | February 20, 2004

"Under a preliminary plan floated by convention organizers, the 'free-speech zone' would be a small plot bounded by Green Line tracks and North Washington Street, in an area that until recently was given over to the elevated artery. The zone would hold as few as 400 of the several thousand protesters who are expected in Boston in late July." [more]

Activists in Boston Host No-DNC Consulta

Anand Vaishnav | Boston Globe | February 15, 2004

"The Bl(A)ck Tea Society plans no marches or rallies, although it hopes to arrange an open-air concert and an 'alternative village' that would disseminate information on politics and current issues. Members dismissed the stereotype of unruly activists running around breaking windows or creating havoc — although they acknowledged that a little street theater or traffic disruption would not hurt." [more]

We Don't Need Laws About Love

Bill Maher | Boston Globe | February 14, 2004

"Republicans used to be the party that opposed social engineering, but now they push programs to outlaw marriage for some people, and encourage it for others." [more]

Infiltration of Files Seen As Extensive

Charlie Savage | Boston Globe | January 22, 2004

" 'There appears to have been no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule,' Miranda said. 'Stealing assumes a property right and there is no property right to a government document ... These documents are not covered under the Senate disclosure rule because they are not official business and, to the extent they were disclosed, they were disclosed inadvertently by negligent [Democratic] staff.' " [more]

Carnegie Study Calls Iraq Threat Overstated

Farah Stockman | Boston Globe | January 9, 2004

"The Carnegie study, based on five months of interviews and research that compared statements by US officials with declassified documents, said that the Bush administration ignored experts who could have offered more accurate information and swept aside the assessments of the State and Energy departments, whose different findings were not made public until July, months after the invasion." [more]

New Goals in War Zones: Streamlining

Wayne Washington and Robert Schlesinger | Boston Globe | October 7, 2003

" 'Almost two years after the fall of the Taliban and nearly six months after the fall of Baghdad, the White House is finally organizing itself to deal with the realities of postwar Afghanistan and Iraq," said Senator John Edwards. '[R]earranging flow charts is no substitute for leadership.' " [more]

Bush Aides Admit Serious Mistakes on Iraq

Wayne Washington | Boston Globe | September 9, 2003

"Senior administration officials for the first time acknowledged that they vastly underestimated the damage to [Iraq's] infrastructure and greatly overestimated the amount of oil revenue that could be used to help rebuild the war-torn country. The disclosures ... mark the administration's strongest acknowledgment to date that it failed to fully comprehend the complexities of rebuilding Iraq." [more]

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