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Great Expectations

In Great Expectations (Chapter 7), Charles Dickens allows his character Pip to write the following letter to Joe:
"MI DEER JO i OPE U R gRWrTE WELL i OpE i SHAL soN B HhBELL 42 TEEDGE U JO AN 7HEN wE SHORL a sO OLODD hN wEN i M PRENOTD 2 U JO wOT LhRX flNBLEvEMErNFxNPrP."
What Pip wanted to say ...

Information world

Clinton versus Obama: who got it right on health care?

In the U.S. fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, health care is an important issue. Senator Hillary Clinton proposes mandatory insurance on grounds of fairness and efficiency. Senator Barack Obama claims that a mandate could hurt middle-class families who cannot afford insurance (source: The New York Times, February 23, 2008).
Health insurance is a tricky issue indeed. But Chapter 13 of Information Economics may be a good point of departure.

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