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House Votes to Block Cut in Doctors’ Medicare Fees
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
Despite a veto threat, the House moved to prevent a 10 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors that was scheduled to take effect July 1.
Washington
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Bipartisan Group to Speak Out on Detainees
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
The group of 200 former officials, retired generals and religious leaders want a presidential order that would outlaw some interrogation and detention practices.
Washington
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Religion and Its Role Are in Dispute at the Service Academies
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
Students and staff at West Point and the Naval Academy are raising questions about the military’s commitment to policies against imposing religion on its members.
Washington
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Political Memo: No. 1 Faux Pas in Washington? Candor, Perhaps
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
A remark from Charlie Black, an aide to John McCain, was in some ways an extension of the candidate’s effort to portray himself as strong on terrorism.
Washington
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Clinton Returns to the Warm Embrace of Her Day Job
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
The United States Senate — the well-paid, perk-laden consolation prize of a day job — also doubles as perhaps the world’s pre-eminent support group for also-ran presidential candidates.
Washington
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Army Awarded Contract, Unaware of Dealer’s Past
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
Officials had canceled or delayed at least five contracts with a Miami Beach munitions dealer for shoddy quality or late deliveries before the firm won a new bid in 2007.
Washington
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Obama Assails Remarks by McCain on Offshore Oil Drilling
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
Barack Obama took a poke at John McCain on Tuesday, saying that for him to talk of a “psychological benefit” from expanded offshore drilling is to define that policy as a gimmick.
Washington
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Top Engineers Shun Military; Concern Grows
25.06.2008 00:18
nytimes.com
As engineers seek higher pay at civilian companies, the Pentagon is losing the people it needs to manage projects.
Washington
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An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
A group in California is seeking a ballot measure that would change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.
Washington
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Evangelical Leader Attacks Obama on Religious Views
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
James Dobson sharply attacked Barack Obama, accusing him of having “a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution” and twisting the meaning of both the Old and New Testaments.
Washington
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Essay: ‘Not My Fault’
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
As White House memoirs have become more accusatory, they have also become less illuminating.
Washington
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International Real Estate: For Sale in ... County Cork, Ireland
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
A four-bedroom four-bath restored Victorian Gothic country house at the edge of Kinsale Harbor in the village of Summercove is on the market for $6.9 million.
World
Real Estate
In Jordan, a Blend of Cultures
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
Despite its proximity to conflict, Amman, the capital of Jordan, is a very peaceful place where people come to do business, leaving their disputes at the border.
World
Real Estate
Property Values: What You Get for ... $1 Million
25.06.2008 00:17
nytimes.com
A two-bedroom condo in Miami Beach, Fla.; a four-bedroom house in Grant, Minn.; and a three-bedroom contemporary in Burien, Wash.
World
Real Estate
Holding Back Young Students: Is Program a Gift or a Stigma?
25.06.2008 00:16
nytimes.com
A New York school district has revived a controversial retention practice to not only hold back nearly 12 percent of its first-graders this spring but to segregate them come fall.
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Science & Education
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