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...world. Frenk, who was health minister from 2000 to 2006, was the founding director-general of Mexico's National Institute of Public Health and later served as an executive director of the World Health Organization. He is currently a senior fellow in the global health program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."In these and other leadership roles, he has emerged over the course of his distinguished career as one of the most thoughtful, insightful, and eloquent exponents of the power of public health to change lives for the better," University President Drew G. Faust said in a letter...
...presidency are the most productive in terms of legislation. In his first term, Bush used his political capital to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act and tax cuts. In 1993 Clinton passed the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady Handgun Bill and the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, and he created AmeriCorps. If Senator Barack Obama wins, this would be the first time that Democrats control both branches of government since the Clinton era, and the potential (and pressure) to complete lots of unfinished legislative business greatly increases...
...residential units are in foreclosure, giving this predominantly African-American city just north of Miami one of the state's - and one of the nation's - highest mortgage failure rates. Few places were as glad to hear that Congress this week had passed a housing relief bill that could help some 400,000 desperate homeowners like Harvin keep their homes via mortgage refinancing aid. They're happier still that President Bush said he'll sign it, despite his objections to the refinancing trust fund as well as the $4 billion set aside to help local governments buy up and refurbish...
...lenders involved in the Miami Gardens disaster were disreputable - and he acknowledges that "there were too many folks here who were totally irresponsible as buyers and shouldn't be able to take advantage of this process." He agrees, for example, with a stipulation in the new bill that defaulting homeowners who get bailed out must return all or a significant portion of any profit they make on the subsequent sale of their house to the federal government. But he also stresses that one of the things he hopes the city can do with the federal aid is reform the reckless...
...spending cuts are mostly, once again, in the sound-bite stage. McCain has promised "comprehensive spending controls," "across-the-board scrutiny" and a bipartisan congressional commission to chop up spending. The goal, says Holtz-Eakin, is to return to the fiscal discipline of the late 1990s, when then President Bill Clinton struck a deal with a Republican Congress to limit spending increases. "People write [new spending] initiatives like they get out of bed these days," says the adviser...