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Clinton had announced plans to create a health care system that provided coverage to all Americans. It would be a monumental political undertaking. Over the prior six decades, universal health care had emerged as the white whale of the liberal movement—an elusive, tantalizing chance to achieve the New Deal’s final piece of unfinished business.
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Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
John Carlin, “If the World’s Greatest Chef Cooked for a Living, He’d Starve,” Guardian, December 11, 2006, http://observer.theguardian.com/foodmonthly/futureoffood/story/0,,1969713,00.html
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Giga-Yachts, Flo Rida, and Bunkers. . . What Could Go Wrong?
Russell was for twenty-six years either Chairman or dominant member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw the battle readiness of the nation’s far-flung legions and armadas. As senators of Rome had insisted that, regardless of the cost, the legions must be kept at full complement because the peace and stability of the known
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Now: the second-best of times.