WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The legislative compromise reached over the weekend on Medicare prescription drug coverage is not an overwhelming hit with either Democrats or Republicans and the bill's true deal makers or breakers just might be senior citizens.

WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Elderly black Medicare beneficiaries are more than twice as likely as whites to report they can't afford prescriptions.

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Already relegated to the basement, a smiling portrait of President Bush has now been banished from the J. Joseph Moakley federal courthouse in Boston.

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