Monday, September 13, 2010

Monday's Top News: Donald Berwick, Obama's Top Health Care Official, Takes the Stage

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Donald Berwick, Obama's Top Health Care Official, Takes the Stage

By Kate Pickert

The new head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, appointed in July, has critics who think he wants to ration health care and fans who think he can make it more efficient

Stanley McChrystal's Personal Reconstruction Plan

By Mark Thompson

McChrystal has gone from commanding 100,000 U.S. — and 30,000 allied — troops in Afghanistan to commanding a couple of dozen students at Yale. But that's what happens when you can't command your tongue

In Iowa, the Democrats Call for a Kick Against GOP Headwinds

By Mark Halperin / Indianola, Iowa

Obama's top political strategists, David Plouffe and David Axelrod, visit Senator Tom Harkin's steak fry with a few pages from the 2008 playbook

Post-H1N1, Why You Still Need to Worry About Flu

By Alice Park

Overall, the consensus is that this flu season won't be as bad as the last one, but when it comes to influenza, one can never be sure what will happen

Will New Banking Rules Slow Economic Growth?

By Michael Schuman

In one of the most significant reforms to emerge from the Great Recession, an international regulatory organization agreed to new banking standards aimed at making the world's financial system less susceptible to total meltdown

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By Joe Klein

Detroit, Mich. Traveling Companion: Rodney Crowell Events: Breakfast with Polidori family; meeting with United Auto Workers activists; Dinner with Doug Ross and friends, Macomb County; Breakfast with Kevin Gentry and friends, Brighton, Michigan; Rocky Rajkowski Town Hall, Birmingham, Mi. Well, this has been a very busy 48 hours, devoted to some of the most important [...]

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Rating the VMA Performances

In between Kanye jokes and Lady Gaga costume changes, MTV found time to host the 2010 Video Music Awards. TIME's Claire Suddath takes a look at the performances

Quotes of the Day

"Yes to freedom. Yes to rule of law. No to the law of the rulers. The tutelage of the coup regime is over."
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN,
Turkish Prime Minister, after voters approved a wide range of constitutional amendments in a referendum held on Sunday
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A Fashion Week Model's Secret: Sensible Shoes

By Joseph Lin

On the eve of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the hottest event on New York City's couture calendar, TIME takes a look inside the grueling audition process for hundreds of high-fashion hopefuls

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