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Bill Clinton must have been licking his chops last week when a National Academy of Sciences report listed medical error as one of the nation's leading causes of death - and called for some measure of health care reform. Clinton's foiled attempt at sweeping health care reform remains one of the great failures of his domestic agenda. And so, in an attempt to beat the rest of the political world to the punch, Clinton announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards...
...this isn't to say that the Crimson was completely error-prone...
...better be, because the stakes for Bush could not be higher. In a new TIME/CNN poll, Bush trails John McCain, 35% to 37%, for the first time in the key state of New Hampshire. The poll's margin of error means the race is a statistical dead heat, but the trend is ominous for Bush. As recently as July the Texas Governor was swamping McCain in Granite State polls by more than 30 points. McCain, with his anti-Establishment appeal and his pow story, has all the momentum in New Hampshire, making him, not Bush, the candidate with buzz going...
...lively analysis, Dunn, a history professor at Williams College, relies heavily on the words, both public utterances and private correspondence, of the participants in the two revolutions. They, of course, did not enjoy the hindsight afforded by history, and it is fascinating to watch them proceeding through trial and error along the unmapped paths toward democracy...
When a child made an error, "she would just tap her pencil on the table a couple of times," he said...