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...even visited once a month, the state's legal minimum. "Kids were dying because they were not adequately supervised," says Carole Shauffer, director of the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. "Foster parents had to make do with 'drive-by visits': they would bring the kids to the curb, because caseworkers didn't have time...
...instead of an affirmation of the Contract with America. Instead of appearing as a tax-and-spend liberal who wants to take away Americans' health care choices (as Republicans effectively portrayed him in 1994), Clinton now looks like the only sane voice in government, a centrist who will curb the excesses of Congress...
...Richard Holbrooke for Bosnia and Robert Gallucci for Korea. Bidden and unbidden, Jimmy Carter has also stepped in at crucial moments. Different Cabinet officers sometimes seize parts of a policy, like Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, whose drive for export promotion has clashed with the State Department's efforts to curb arms proliferation and human-rights abuses. Individual results may be impressive, but foreign policy by franchise loses the force and coherence of a guiding intelligence. "Every once in a while someone wanders into the engine room and pulls the throttle," says Scowcroft, "but it's hard to see that anyone...
...trend in America that seems to be shifting this country away from the true ideals of capitalism and democracy, namely that everyone has an equal opportunity to excel, and that this country is run for the people and by the people. The House of Representatives voted last month to curb Medicare spending by $270 billion; welfare cuts and other disagreements between President Clinton and Congress led Tuesday to a government shutdown, sending home 800,000 civil service worker...
Wasteful spending has been a problem. But the organization does not have enough oversight power to curb all the spending. Most of its major branches, such as the World Health Organization, are actually only bound to the U.N. by treaty and are not under U.N. authority. And while the U.N.'s spending is reputed to be extravagant, its 1995 budget of $10.5 billion is surely not too much to pay to help keep peace in the world. While the U.N. operated 25 peacekeeping operations in the last decade on that budget, it is still only three times the budget...