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...teacher says her principal wouldn't let her get her broken arm treated until the end of the day. A manager writes about a company owner who said he couldn't afford a portable toilet for his staff when the office pipes froze for two weeks--even as his wife was picking out a $20,000 chandelier for their vacation home. Those bad-boss tales are entered in a contest sponsored by Working America, a group affiliated with the AFL-CIO, to find the best stories of workplace woe. Submissions are being accepted at workingamerica.org until July 19, and anyone...
...could call it the broken-windows theory of domestic terrorism--after James Q. Wilson's and George L. Kelling's much lauded crime policy that suggests that by cracking down on minor offenders, you send a message to the major ones, and sometimes catch them too. The policy, reiterated by FBI director Robert Mueller in a conveniently timed speech late last week, is to never dismiss the grand schemes of small men, even if those men are Americans and their schemes are more dream than reality. "Radicalization often starts with individuals who are frustrated with their lives, with the politics...
...Broken arm, painful shoulder, hand, hip or knee? The orthopedic clinic at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center is a great value. Two orthopedic surgeons, often four or five, will talk to you, examine you (and your x-rays) and then discuss your case in a sophisticated conference and decide on the best course of treatment - all for $45 ($175 if you live outside of the "neighborhood" - what used to be called Spanish Harlem.) I learned a good deal of what I know about treating patients there as a resident, and I've taught there ever since. A few have been there...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...
...Klein missed the point. The objection we have to illegal immigrants is that they have intentionally broken important laws of this country. If our immigration laws are unsatisfactory, then change the laws, but don't encourage making a mockery of them. Robert L. Cragg Maple Glen, Pennsylvania...