- As I write this article, I'm seated in a hotel room across
from the train station in Geneva, Switzerland. There's a slight, dull pain
in my forehead from a two-inch line of stitches that are pulling together
a gash that runs diagonally across my brow, thanks to a stumble on a high
step on a sidewalk in the rain last night, that sent me flying airborne
headfirst into a round metal lamppost.
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- I have been covering the Fourth Congress Against the
Death Penalty sponsored by the United Nations and the international abolition
movement, which brought together anti-death penalty groups from all over
the world, and featured talks and workshops with a number of people, several
from the US, who had spent years and even decades on death rows before
being found innocent of the crimes that had put them there.
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- In view of their agonies and torments, my own little
injury seems rather pathetic, but it did give me a chance, as the debate
over how to deal with America's health care crisis drags on in Washington,
to see in person the workings of a non-socialist model of health care--but
one that controls prices and also mandates (that word that strikes terror
into every Republican heart) that everyone buy insurance.
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- The answer is, it works pretty damned well!...
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- For the rest of this article, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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