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...Wisconsin. "We're going to do this incrementally," says JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts' secretary of health and human services. "We want to increase pay-for-performance first and episode payments next." Is five years enough to make the transition entirely? Bigby concedes she doesn't know. "No one's ever done this," she admits...
...there to undermine Saakashvili's courtship of NATO, which he wanted Georgia to join. Saakashvili told me that from the outset, any talk he had with then Russian President Vladimir Putin on the breakaway territories was met with warnings about his relationship to the West: "The first lecture [Putin] ever gave me in Moscow was 'All these Eastern European leaders seem to be so subservient to the U.S.' It was very disgusting to Putin. He warned me, 'Don't even try that...
...than anything, though, Saakashvili is restless. His jitters can at times make him seem like an overgrown adolescent. Cameras caught him chewing nervously on his tie during last August's war, a gesture he has been careful not to repeat. In my presence, he caught himself several times gnawing, ever so slightly, on the corner of a handkerchief. But these tics are a small price to pay for his biggest asset: his tremendous, limitless energy. Columbia's Mitchell calls it "government by adrenaline." Saakashvili is addicted to quick, dramatic acts of leadership. Particularly in the early years, he got results...
...intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger wrote, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" and lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed...
...getting pressure from insurance CEOs who were alarmed about a drop in their firms' stock prices since mid-September, in part resulting from grim forecasts by Wall Street analysts. "She said her CEOs were really up in arms," DeParle said. For her part, Ignagni denies that she ever told the White House not to expect a report, and says she never discussed taxes on CEO pay with any officials. She said DeParle raised the issue of Wall Street analysts. "I had two people that were with me," Ignagni added as corroboration. "They...