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Sick, and Tired of the Endless Paperwork
We've been charged for seeing doctors we never met, and even the armrests on my wife's wheelchair • FULL STORY

Beth Perkins for Newsweek

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The 40th president of the United States undoubtedly had great charm. He also, in the opinion of many, did great harm.

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These days, a liberal on health issues is a conservative who's been mugged by an illness in the family

• Zakaria: Tackle the Nuke Threat
Bin Laden has called it a 'duty' for Al Qaeda to get a nuclear bomb. But policies to prevent nuclear terror have hardly changed since 9/11

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Sharing a house with my grandfather every year isn't easy, but that's not about to keep me away

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HOWARD FINEMAN

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It's easier now to invoke aura of an icon—and it's very safe

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ANDY BOROWITZ

• HUMOR: IRAQI SOVEREIGNTY IS MISSING
'It was here a minute ago,' says Bremer

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GERSH KUNTZMAN

• KUNTZMAN ON UNDECIDED VOTERS
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ELEANOR CLIFT

• CLIFT: REAGAN’S STORYBOOK LIFE
Ronald Reagan governed by anecdote and indefatigable optimism

• Clift: George Tenet's Odd Timing

MARK STARR

• STARR: THE TALE OF TIGER’S SLUMP
The golfer hasn’t won a tourney—other than at match play—since last fall. It may help if there’s foul weather at the upcoming U.S. Open

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MELINDA HENNEBERGER

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Cardinal Law’s new posting may not be golden parachute his critics think it is

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MICHAEL ISIKOFF and MARK HOSENBALL

• TERROR WATCH: PROBE INTO CHALABI LEAKS MAY WIDEN
The probe into alleged Chalabi leaks to the Iranians may widen

• Terror Watch: Are Latest Warnings Justified?

RICHARD WOLFFE

• WOLFFE: LIVING UP TO THE REAGAN EULOGIES
Both Kerry and Bush are suffering the discomfort of comparison with a late president whose political edges have been softened by time

• Wolffe: Bush’s Words Vs. Reality in Iraq

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY

• DICKEY: IS BUSH BUYING TIME AT THE U.N.?
Bush finally seems to have come to his senses about co-operating with the United Nations. But will the lucidity last?

• Dickey: G.I.s Make the Best Of It in Iraq

MICHAEL ROGERS

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The measure of a man's life may need to be taken in petabytes, not terabytes.

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Kerry, too, said there was 'too much' money in politics. That was before he discovered that he could raise $89 million in 80 days

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How do you return to the 'real world' when only other soldiers can understand how you've changed?

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It is one thing to preach the teachings of the church, quite another to use the centerpiece of the faith as a tool to influence the ballot box

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Bush was out touting health and education programs he had, in fact, sharply cut. But if Kerry had a sharp rejoinder, it was hard to hear.

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China is the largest consumer of steel, tin and copper—and the second largest of oil. But what if its economy is caught in a bubble?

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Everywhere in the Arab world, people are talking about reform. But the easiest way to sideline a reform is to claim that it's pro-American

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"There are stem cells to do research on and ... we have to be really careful between what we want to do for science and what we should do ethically."
—First Lady Laura Bush, whose father died of Alzheimer's disease in 1997, refusing to back Nancy Reagan on her call for relaxation of stem-cell research restrictions

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