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...genial front for then majority leader Tom DeLay, whose nickname--the Hammer--pretty much summed up his leadership touch. "There has been no institutional rule, means, norm or tradition that cannot be set aside to advance a partisan political goal," says Brookings Institution political scientist Thomas Mann, co-author of the recently published book whose title describes Congress as The Broken Branch. In 2003, instead of fashioning a compromise that might woo a few Democrats, Hastert and DeLay held what was supposed to be a 15-min. vote open for three full hours as they squeezed the last Republican votes...
...Frank Luntz was the pollster of record for the Contract With America in 1994. He is the author of the forthcoming book Words That Work...
...cases. Though medical errors are an oft-studied subject, the researchers studied 307 medical malpractice claims that involved errors in an “ambulatory,” or non-emergency, setting—an area that “has been understudied,” according to co-author of the report, Eric J. Thomas, a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center. The study examined the different causes of diagnostic errors and categorized the resulting degree of harm to patients by five categories, ranging from emotional trauma to major physical injury to death. The report concluded...
...Irwin Redlener, M.D., the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now (Knopf), is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and president of the Children's Health Fund
...Letter from Iraq" moved quickly beyond the small group of acquantainaces and hit the inboxes of retired generals, officers in the Pentagon, and staffers on Capitol Hill. TIME's Sally B. Donnelly first received a copy three weeks ago but only this week was able to track down the author and verify the document's authenticity. The author wishes to remain anonymous but has allowed us to publish it here - with a few judicious omissions...