To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.
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Arthur Alexander, Musician (1940) |
Milton Babbitt, Composer (1916) |
Karl Barth, Theologian (1886) |
Andrew Card, Politician (1947) |
Maybelle Carter, Musician (1909) |
Linda Evangelista, Model (1965) |
David Fincher, Director (1962) |
Judith Jamison, Dancer (1943) |
Alfred Jodl, Soldier (1890) |
Stonewall Jackson, Soldier (1863) |