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Crimson beef expert Anna D. Wilde, a native of beef-heavy Wisconsin, speculates that beef tips are cow ears. Some of them do look like ears, others most definitely do not. Whole dinner conversations can be sparked by an oddly shaped piece of meat. Do chickwiches ever provide such food for thought? Even Harvey Mansfield rarely does...
...trusted health-care adviser. A tall, balding man with a weakness for jargon, Magaziner seemed to live in a world with its own brand of mathematics. He contended that Clinton could cover 37 million uninsured Americans by putting controls on costs and eliminating waste. Nearly every Democratic health-care expert, however, concluded that efficiencies alone would never be enough: Clinton would have to raise taxes as well...
Require that all Americans be given a greater choice of insurance plans at different levels of price and service. Under the current system, says Paul Starr, a Princeton health-care expert who helped write the Clinton plan, "most people don't have a choice of any plan. They just take whatever their employer gives them." Under the Clinton plan, people would be offered several options. The most expensive would be the traditional fee-for-service medicine from an individual doctor. Less expensive would be the so-called preferred-provider organizations (PPOs) that many companies are now using; these require that...
Robert Blendon, a Harvard expert on public opinion about health care, predicts that Clinton's plan will be popular because it offers "new benefits, no new taxes except for cigarettes," and control of the prices charged by doctors, hospitals and drug companies. Says he: "To be popular, the public has to think the money is coming from the provider community, which they think is doing too well anyway...
...Jewish settlements. A "strong" Palestinian police force of several thousand, armed with pistols and rifles, will be created from P.L.O. units now taking special training in Jordan and Egypt. "I think this agreement is going to wear well," concludes William Quandt, the Carter Administration's chief Middle East expert, now at the Brookings Institution. "There's a degree of seriousness that argues well for its prospects...