Health Care Reform a Higher Priority than Social Security: Poll

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

Auschwitz at 60: The Lesson of Moral Perimeters

Several years ago, my wife and I visited the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. We had come like so many visitors: against our will, in some way, yet impelled by history and conviction to visit this monument of inhumanity. We came to learn, to grieve, and to keep from forgetting. We left with a clearer sense of exactly what it was we needed to not forget....

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3. What They're Saying:

This is Going to Take Some Work

"This is going to take some work.... [W]e must overwhelm with force."

-- National Institutes of Health official Dr. Edmund Tramont, outlining plans to fire Dr. Jonathan Fishbein after he "raised allegations of interference with his safety work," according to memos obtained by the AP. The agency now says he is being fired for poor performance.....

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4. White House to Stop Paying Commentators to Sell Policies

WASHINGTON

After a second commentator was outed last week for failing to disclose contracts with the federal government, President Bush said he would stop paying commentators to tout his administration's programs and policies....

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5. Polish Publisher Fined for Insulting Pope in Satirical Magazine

WARSAW

A controversial Polish publisher was fined $6,500 last week for defaming Pope John Paul II in a scathing satire published in 2002, sparking concerns about freedom of the press in Poland....

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6. Man Plans Suicide, Asking Media to Publicize Right-to-Die Issue

OTTAWA

A 78-year-old Ottawa-area man, Marcel Tremblay, committed suicide Friday after publicly announcing his plans in an act of protest against Canada's prohibition against assisted suicide, which prevents those who are not able to take their own life to have the assistance of others....

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7. Companies Craft Plan to Help Cover Uninsured Workers

NEW YORK

A coalition of some of the nation's largest employers last week announced a plan to provide low-cost health insurance to 3 million eligible workers, saying that while not perfect, the move is a necessary first step....

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8. Michigan Employer Tells Workers to Quit Smoking or Quit Their Job

DETROIT

Following the resignation of four workers from a Michigan company that told employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs, press reports last week profiled recent efforts by employers determined to stamp out cigarette use....

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9. Court Revives Obesity Lawsuit against McDonald's

NEW YORK

A federal appeals court last week revived a lawsuit filed by two obese teenagers in New York who accused McDonald's Corp. of falsely advertising the company's fast food as part of a healthy diet....

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10. Riggs Bank Pleads Guilty to Criminal Count over Money Laundering

WASHINGTON

Riggs Bank last week pleaded guilty to one felony count for failing to appropriately report hundreds of millions of dollars in funds held by the bank on behalf of brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and officials in Equatorial Guinea....

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11. ConocoPhillips to Pay nearly $530 Million in Clean Air Settlement

HOUSTON, Texas

ConocoPhillips, the nation's largest refiner of petroleum products, last week agreed to pay nearly $530 million to settle federal charges of violating the Clean Air Act by releasing too much pollution....

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12. Kenyan Firms Continue to Face Rampant Corruption

NAIROBI

Despite government pledges to eradicate corruption, Kenyan businesses still face an environment rife with bribes, graft, and under-the-table payments, according to a new survey released last week....

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13. Research Report:

'Public's Agenda Differs from President's'

From the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

"George W. Bush begins his second term with considerably less popular support than other recent incumbent presidents after their reelection. He also is proposing a second-term policy agenda that differs in several key respects from the public's. Health care, aid for the poor, and the growing budget deficit are all increasingly important public priorities, while limiting lawsuit awards, making recent tax cuts permanent, and tax simplification rank near the bottom of the public's agenda...."

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14. Quote from the Ethics File:

Assertion is Not Argument

"Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct."

-- Samuel Johnson (English lexicographer, critic, and poet, 1709-1784)

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