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Under Carter, he became a member of the newly formed Commission on Mental Health, the assistant secretary of the department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the administration’s surgeon general...
...help is a flood of foreign investment. Japan has been notoriously resistant to outsiders and their bucks, but recently it has even allowed American vulture capital firms like Ripplewood to swoop in and pick apart its failed institutions. The next step, say investors, is legislation that insists local companies hew to greater accounting transparency. In Japan, corporations don't have to air all their dirty financial laundry to shareholders, as they do in the U.S.; a money-losing division can be hidden away as a "subsidiary" and assets can be listed at inflated values. A hint of change in that...
...years in an historical context. It's also important for the Democratic party: How does this rift, and Al Gore's loss, affect the party and future campaigns? Does the party need to go back to traditional concerns, in the spirit of the Gore campaign, or should the party hew to a Clinton-inspired centrist philosophy...
...Ernest Gruening '06, former United States Senator from Alaska, says Daniel Ellsberg '52 "should be given the equivalent of a Congressional medal of honor" for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press. 4 - The University releases an affirmative action plan to comply with Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) regulations. Although increasing the number of minority employees, the plan draws criticism for keeping the hiring of women at a constant level. 5 - In his first major move as President, Bok lowers the male-female ratio for the Class of 1976 from...
...only are the program's wrangles topical, but they also hew closely to the actual debates in Washington instead of giving us Hollywood's usual cartoon version. That's not out of civic obligation, the showmen insist, it's just that reality is entertaining. "The farther you get away from the truth of those debates, the softer the drama is going to be," says Sorkin, who also created and writes the ABC series Sports Night. For a political edge, he relies on consultants like Caddell and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give...