Word: aarons
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Putting together the exhibit, now on view at the United Nations in New York City, was no simple task. "There was an extraordinary outpouring from photographers," observes Aaron Schindler of Photo Perspectives, who designed the show. He, along with Sandra Miocic and Mirna Safcak, two women of Croatian descent who first proposed the exhibit, culled the photos from more than 10,000 pictures. Their goal: to find graphically strong, informative and emotionally evocative images that would illustrate distinct agonies of the war -- ethnic cleansing, the siege of Sarajevo, the medical emergency, life in detention camps and refugee centers...
Last September, economist Henry Aaron was preparing to meet Bill Clinton to talk about health care when he got a call from a Clinton aide who said abruptly, "Don't come." A scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Aaron had been asked to advise the presidential candidate, then campaigning in Michigan, on ways to finance his expansive health-care goals. Aaron agreed to brief him, but declared in advance that he rejected the easy assumptions of Clinton's staff members that health insurance could be guaranteed to all merely by targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." Aaron stated that...
...Americans. Now that he's President, however, Clinton is finding it difficult to deliver the four-course free lunch that he promised. The health-care initiative he unveiled to the nation last Wednesday, though widely praised for boldness and compassion, is drawing fire on precisely the point identified by Aaron and others: the rosy assumptions that undergird its financing. Senator Pat Moynihan of New York, chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, spoke for many fellow Democrats last week when he dismissed those assumptions as "fantasy" and warned that "we mustn't pretend that this is going to be free...
...ranked third in the East behind Ancient Eight power Dartmouth and Boston University, jumped on the scoreboard nine minutes into the contest when Wildcats junior Aaron Porter headed a cross pass from teammate Mike Veneto into the right corner...
...Third Avenue El while his mother, the rawboned, boilermaker-swigging Emma, drives a cab. Fortunately for Claude, the cramped living quarters contains an old 66- key nightclub piano, a memento from Emma's past life on the vaudeville circuit. The boy begins plinking away and eventually seeks advice from Aaron Weisfeld, the owner of a nearby music-supply store...