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...debates generally broke down along familiar lines: State, CIA, and NSC favored a more inclusive and transparent approach, in which Iraqis representing the many tribes, sects, and interest groups in the country would be brought together to consult and put together some sort of rough constituent assembly that might then select an advisory council and a group of ministers to govern the country...
...vice president and Pentagon civilians, however, advocated a very different approach. Rather than risking an open-ended political process that Americans could influence but not control, they wanted to be able to limit the Iraqis' power and handpick those Iraqis who would participate. In practice, that meant Ahmed Chalabi and a handful of other well-known, longtime exiled oppositionists, along with the leaders of the essentially autonomous Kurdish areas. The differences in approach were clear and starkly articulated. The vice president himself summed up the dilemma: The choice, he said, was between "control and legitimacy." [Undersecretary of Defense] Doug Feith...
...latest showcase for the MaxPot approach is the new 500,000-sq.-ft. Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, set to open this June, which aims to be the first hospital in the world to attain platinum status in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Its green features include heavy use of local and renewable materials, on-site wastewater facilities and windows that open, allowing fresh air to become an alternative to energy-consuming air conditioning. Vittori's vision of hospital design also extends to the mental well-being of the patients and staff. The Dell Center...
...debate on how to train young doctors comes as HMS reforms its decades-old curriculum. According to Jules L. Dienstag, the dean for medical education, Groopman’s ideas are playing a role in changing the school’s approach...
...What aspect of reporting do you look forward to returning to the most, and has your experience changed how you approach that aspect? -Mark Ziemer in Alpharetta, GA My love of journalism from the very beginning is reporting and getting out to the places where the stories are happening and learning more about them so we can tell more accurately what the story is. That is certainly what I want to do. I believe that I need to get around the entire country as well as overseas. There was a time when the US was pretty separate from the world...