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Clinton's instincts these days err on the side of caution. The once accessible candidate now travels almost completely cordoned off from his press corps. Impromptu press conferences are discouraged because as Begala -- the traveling strategist and speechwriter -- puts it, "they just don't look very presidential...
...homage to virtue by at least publicly acknowledging its sovereignty. "Any one may yield to temptation," wrote William Hazlitt, "and yet feel a sincere love and aspiration after virtue: but he who maintains vice in theory, has not even the conception or capacity for virtue in his mind. Men err: fiends only make a mock at goodness...
...clearing carotid endarterectomies were either unnecessary or highly questionable. In a separate review for the Philadelphia Professional Standards Review Organization, Dr. Allan Greenspan found that about 25% of heart-pacemaker implants performed in the Philadelphia region were inappropriate. Many doctors challenge such findings, arguing that it is better to err on the safe side...
Besides being happy with the specific procedures involved in advising, Mackay-Smith supports the overall existing philosophy the FDO has taken on this issue in the past decade--namely, that it is better to err on the side of too much, instead of too little advising...
...L.A.P.D., says its officers are taught "that there are two kinds of errors police can make on the street. One is not being aggressive when they should be, and the other is being aggressive when they shouldn't." The message the cops get, says Katz, is that they should err on the side of aggressiveness. And although Gates can't be held responsible for every officer's action, he does set the tone in the department. "If you look at the King videotape," says Katz, "there is a cultural sense that this ((beating)) is appropriate. It is not as though...