News round up - March 19th

Here are a few news stories you may have missed:

• Back in 1993, advisers to Hilary Clinton created an "enemies" list (their word) of those who did not support her efforts at healthcare reform.

• Since 1970, the Illinois Medicaid program has paid some $12 million for medical services for people who, according to other state records, were deceased at the time.Suggestions have been made to correct this problem. Illinois now requires every funeral home/cemetery to register burials with a state agency or face heavy fines. I hope cross-checking with this agency among the suggested fixes, though, really, it ought to be the only suggestion to avoid paying for dead people.

•  Jews have been ordered to register and declare their property in Ukraine, or face expulsion and confiscation. We've seen this before, and it didn't end well...

• Cuba has declared Good Friday a national holiday.

•  In Rome, a woman who became pregnant through in vitro fertilization, has been fertilized with another woman's embryos.

•  Each year in Pakistan some 700 Christian girls and women are kidnapped and forced into Muslim marriages.