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Monday, November 4, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Little Maria’s New Home

Today: Memo Warned Admin. On Healthcare , GOP Sen. Backs Equal Rights Bill , Taliban Denounces The Daily Beast
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

November 04, 2013
EUROPE

With the couple who raised her still in jail under charges of kidnapping and her biological mother absent, the blonde girl who drew international attention when she was found in a Greek Roma camp has been put into Bulgaria's foster care system. The Daily Beast's Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.

OOPS

Healthcare advisor David Cutler warned in a May 2010 memo to Larry Summers that the White House did not have the "relevant members of the administration understand the president's vision or have the capability to carry it out." In particular, Cutler stressed his concerns that the people working to carry out the reform had little experience in the complicated world of startups—and the technology itself would pose a problem. Cutler also warned about the myriad difficulties in implementing the new regulations and policy objectives. Since launching a month ago, HealthCare.gov, the website where consumers can purchase insurance, is still the target of large amounts of public and political ire.

CLEARED HURDLE

A bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against an employee due to sexual orientation cleared a major hurdle Monday when Nevada Republican Dean Heller announced Monday he will vote for it—likely becoming the crucial 60th vote in the Senate. The bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, has the support of the entire Democratic caucus, as well as Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Kirk of Illinois. To pass, the bill will also need votes by Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who have both indicated in committee votes that they back the bill, but have not voted officially on the Senate floor. Other Republicans, including Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, could also be persuadable.

GEE THANKS

Everyone is a media critic now. The Taliban denounced The Daily Beast for violating "the basic principles of journalism" for our November 1 article detailing top-secret meeting the terrorist group held near Islamabad. Not content merely to criticize The Daily Beast's journalistic ethics, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid argued that this website is run by "famous intelligence agents" (we're conducting an internal investigation). Our knuckle-dragging critics also lectured the The Daily Beast for not contacting the Taliban's media spokesman or regurgitating its semi-literate press releases. "Attributing false statements to the Islamic Emirate and associating with [sic] unknown figures with us violates the basic principles of journalism," Mujahid says. Thanks for the tip, Taliban! It's always fun to be lectured about ethics by a terrorist organization dedicated to bringing the world back to the seventh century.

ABUSES OF POWER

A former teacher was convicted of molesting five students at Virginia's elite Potomac school. The victims want to know if the school did enough to stop him. The Daily Beast's Lizzie Crocker reports.


GOTCHA
SAC Capital Pleads Guilty
To insider trading.
MYSTERY
Milly Dowler Notes Disappeared
Prosecutors allege Rebekah Brooks and others hid them.
SURVIVAL OF THE MEANEST
'Queen Bees' Hard-Wired to Rule
Teen psychologist blames it all on "hormones."
BROADCAST YOURSELF
YouTube's Strange Music Awards
And yet epically cool.
ACCIDENT
King Tut Mystery Solved
After nearly a century.

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