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...Harvard can run the table against its next six opponents, it should be in a pretty good position to make the NCAA tournament, where it could well get another crack at the Tigers...
...should also oversee a patient's care. No drug manufacturer has ever directly overseen the full range of a clinic?s patient care. While government regulators may allow a relatively small fish like Zeneca to get away with such an arrangement, TIME's Dan Kadlec says they will probably crack down if the industry's heavyweights try to follow suit. "If it gets too cozy, the regulators are going to look at it. You aren't likely to see the big firms get away with this on a grand scale because it's too anti-competitive. It gives them...
Patients and consumer advocates are demanding that the government crack down on HMO abuses. Their complaints are being heard all the way up to the White House. President Clinton has just appointed a 34-member advisory committee to draft a patients' bill of rights and study what kind of legislation may be needed to enforce it. "Many Americans worry that lower costs mean lower quality and less attention to their rights," said the President. He was being mild. Senator Edward Kennedy, introducing a comprehensive HMO-reform bill drafted by Democrats, charged, "Too many managed-care firms and other insurance companies...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The penalty for crack possession will remain markedly more severe then that for holding an equal amount of cocaine after the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the law. According to current federal guidelines, it takes 100 times more cocaine powder than crack to draw the same 10-year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with...
...Saturday morning radio show that he is extending the new family leave provisions to federal employees so they also can take time off from work for their children's school conferences and medical appointments. And on Monday, he will unveil a joint agreement with the U.S. clothing industry to crack down on abusive labor practices in poor countries, according to the Washington Post. So far, the strategy seems to be working: recent polls have indicated that less than 4 percent of Americans rank getting to the bottom of possible campaign finance irregularities as the central issue inside the beltway...