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...that both appealed to her as a conservative. In March, for instance, weighing the demands of military authority against the exercise of religious belief, she rejected Rehnquist's majority opinion that the Air Force could enforce a dress code prohibiting religious headgear, in this case a yarmulke. Says Bruce Fein of the American Enterprise Institute: "She just wanted a little more military justification." On the same day, her close attention to procedural correctness led to another disappointment for conservatives. In a 5-to-4 decision involving the legitimacy of a voluntary-school-prayer group in Pennsylvania, O'Connor joined with...
Monetary concerns are far more pressing than curricular opportunties, according to Fein. Students leave medical school saddled with huge debts of $100,000 or more, and desperately need practices that will allow them to pay monthly installments of up to $1000 on their loans...
...criticize a student who, having that kind of debt, wants to go where risks are fewer and the economic rewards are greater. He has to pay those dollars back and with interest. And the rural area or the depressed area presents a problem if you owe $50,000," Fein says...
Financial aid awards to students from depressed communities could lead those students to return to their homes to set up practices, according to Fein, but he was skeptical. A graduate who had never seen a ghetto might be less likely to want to establish a practice there, but a someone from a ghetto would be no more likely to return...
...maldistribution of health care is far too great a problem for the school to cure, Fein says. "There is not much that can be done short of state or federal legislation that would provide incentives for doctors to settle in less wealthy neighborhoods...