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Bradley tries to be less obsessed with wonkery than he was in the past, but weaning himself isn't easy. He debates the fine points of policy and rewrites speeches himself, which takes time. Since he doesn't have the Vice President's policy apparatus, he solicits ideas from hundreds of outsiders; his staff boils down the best ones. But Bradley is the final arbiter of what's good enough, which is why he can create a bottleneck. In November, he was scheduled to give a major foreign-policy address at Tufts University, but as the date drew near...
Gandhi remains today the only complete critique of advanced industrial society. Others have criticized its totalitarianism but not its productive apparatus. He is not against science and technology, but he places priority on the right to work and opposes mechanization to the extent that it usurps this right. Large-scale machinery, he holds, concentrates wealth in the hands of one man who tyrannizes the rest. He favors the small machine; he seeks to keep the individual in control of his tools, to maintain an interdependent love relation between the two, as a cricketer with his bat or Krishna with...
...While the real teeth of this effort - the regulatory agency and the funding apparatus - are contained in a bill proposed by Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, Clinton's executive order has more clout, since it could take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform...
...article "Intellectual Property?" (Editorial, Nov. 1) incorrectly states that "Harvard demands that all tutoring done for money be done through the apparatus of the Bureau of Study Counsel." Students can legally and ethically earn money tutoring for Harvard Student Resources, a division of Harvard Student Agencies, and in the process help members of the community...
Harvard demands that all tutoring done for money be done through the apparatus of the Bureau of Study Counsel, so that we as equals in the pursuit of knowledge do not exploit our fellow students. These restrictions are meant to protect the intellectual pursuits that Harvard at its best represents...