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Though Toffoli acknowledged that he and Cosby drifted apart the following year, he said that he saw his fellow bright-eyed Ninja Turtle become a high school senior much respected within his circle of friends as the kind of person who would “really come through for you when you needed...
...text message,’” said Trevor G. Frankel ’09, who added that 15 to 20 minutes elapsed between when the messages were sent and when he learned of the shooting from other students. “We kind of got lucky that it was a kind of situation where [hearing the news immediately] wasn’t a matter of public safety.” Students have also reported failure to receive the texts due to poor cell phone reception in the Quad—an issue that the College has been working...
...Fitch of Milliman notes, the most urgent prescription is to get payers and providers in cities like Miami "to be more penalized and incentivized" on the cost-savings front. Even if health-care plans stopped paying hospitals for unnecessary inpatient stays, others says, that kind of abuse still won't end if the plans don't also stop paying patients' doctors for visits during those stays - a major moneymaker for physicians. Those doctors should instead be motivated, financially or otherwise, by plans to focus more on preventive health-care treatments. Either way, when it comes to reforming health-care albatrosses...
...First, Pelosi has long considered media training - the kind that teaches you never to leave your own press conference - a waste of her time. (Her daughter Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, gave up trying to convince her otherwise years ago.) Clearly she should no longer do press conferences unrehearsed. Second, for all her careful planning, Pelosi can be rash, even impetuous, when confronted with a surprise, as she was at her CIA presser. "Her biggest fault? Impatience," says Representative Dennis Cardoza, the only moderate member of Pelosi's leadership team. "She's tenacious. Still, when tenaciousness becomes stubbornness, that becomes...
...Pelosi has taken pains to centralize the power of the Speaker's office. Members can't take trips abroad, get on a committee or even sign out a room for a meeting without her permission. But that kind of omnipotent power works only when members are confident it will be exercised under control. Despite her missteps, Pelosi has been able to run the most unified caucus in half a century. But if she wants to keep it unified - and keep running it - she might need to stick to her own playbook...