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...malpractice premiums rose faster than in those without. Why aren't doctors and lawyers combining their considerable political clout to work for regulation of premium costs instead of undermining one another? Insurance companies are running the country's health-care system into the ground, forcing doctors and patients to bear the increasing burden of the insurance firms' poor money-management practices. The insurers are the ones that need regulation. DANA O'LEARY Springfield...
...though Summers acknowledged that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 bear responsibility for conducting the review, he offered specific priorities of his own, ranging from a call to provide students with “familiarity with the landscape of the major fields of knowledge” to the need for a greater emphasis on oratorical skills...
...deficit. By comparison, New York City is suffering its worst budget crisis in 30 years, but has only come up short by €2.8 billion. And New York has 8 million residents to share the pain, compared with Berlin's 3.4 million. What makes it harder for Berliners to bear is that they are accustomed to the high life. The city has three opera houses, five symphony orchestras and three world-class universities, all paid for by the Berlin government; it has 3,000 more police officers than Hamburg, a region of comparable size, and 30% more civil servants. Some...
...Philips DVDR75 A confusing manual and cryptic onscreen menus made setting up and learning to use this device a bear. Once you get past those hurdles, the R75, which records onto DVD+RWs (rewritable) and DVD+R (single recording only) discs, works just fine. I especially liked the thumbnail previews of recorded shows, as opposed to the plain-text listings on other models. Still, the original $699 list price seemed about $100 too steep, which may be why Philips recently lowered...
...represent peaceful resistance and nonviolence in a world at war with terrorism, which is political dissidence in its worst form. But his popularity has only led to furious commercial exploitation?his images sell computers, movies and books?turning the Dalai Lama, at best, into the world's spiritual teddy bear. French writes a hilarious account of the Dalai Lama on the Larry King Live TV show in 2000. After describing him as a leading Muslim in an earlier program, the host Larry King asks the monk for his thoughts on DNA and the human-genome project. Bewildered, the Dalai Lama...