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Republicans - John McCain delivered a victory there, where he enjoys the support of his ex-G.O.P. rival and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani...
...surprised, that's understandable. Until the early 1990s, care at VA hospitals was so substandard that Congress considered shutting down the entire system and giving ex-G.I.s vouchers for treatment at private facilities. Today it's a very different story. The VA runs the largest integrated health-care system in the country, with more than 1,400 hospitals, clinics and nursing homes employing 14,800 doctors and 61,000 nurses. And by a number of measures, this government-managed health-care program--socialized medicine on a small scale--is beating the marketplace. For the sixth year...
...that era with the same name. He quit school to go to war in 1942 and, after his battalion landed on Omaha Beach under fire, went on to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he finished high school supported only by the "52-20" unemployment package for ex-G.I.s: $20 a week for a year...
...Ex-G.O.P. chairman Poole, now a lobbyist in Tallahassee, regards that as tiresome demonization. Harris "has modernized the elections office," he insists. "And what she's done to bring in economic development outside of tourism shows how strong and independent she is." Even a Democrat like political consultant Ron Sachs, a former aide to the late Governor Lawton Chiles, says Harris has proved "a masterful hardball politician under extraordinary pressure. She's made sure that every move she makes says, 'I'll be damned if I'm the one who's going to get blamed for costing [George...
DIED. RONALD RIDENHOUR, 52, Vietnam vet turned investigative journalist whose dogged accusations as an ex-G.I. led to the exposure of the massacre at My Lai; of a heart attack while playing handball; in Metairie, La. Shocked by comrades' talk of the March 16, 1968, killings, Ridenhour investigated and sent a long letter to several Congressmen and President Nixon when he returned to the U.S. His account that "something rather dark and bloody" had transpired seared the nation's conscience...