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...Calvin Klein...
...families in his factory have been with the company for several generations, at least since Dorino, Diego and Andrea's father, set up shop in Casette d'Ete in the 1940s and later began manufacturing shoes for private-label department-store brands in addition to designers like Calvin Klein and Azzedine Alaïa. Dorino's father Filippo was a local cobbler whose workbench still sits in a corner on the second floor of the factory as a kind of reminder of the family's more humble beginnings...
...perceived stereotypical divide between the Yee-Haw province and Ye Olde Canada grew wider last week when Alberta Premier Ralph Klein plunked down a series of health-care proposals that collectively hit the country like a splash of cold water. Dubbed the Third Way, the bulk of the province's health-care "policy framework" is laudable stuff, though mostly not revolutionary. The first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA THINKING? A principal justification for the Third Way is that the current system is unsustainable. "The health system must change to survive," Klein said last week. Alberta, the wealthiest province in the country, says if nothing is done by 2030, the public system will completely consume its provincial budget. National health care, of course, is already under stress from rapidly rising costs, as evidenced by long wait times for some treatments and overcrowded emergency wards. The problem, in many cases, is not a lack of doctors, says Alberta's Health and Wellness Ministry, but a lack...
...Perishable Good I agree with Joe Klein's column "Democracy, the Morning After" [Feb. 6], which lashed out at President George W. Bush's "love affair with democracy" and its unintended consequences. Democracy, whether American or God's gift, can't be exported like a product; it requires preconditions. During the cold war, the U.S. created and maintained many ruthless and undemocratic regimes that were eventually overthrown by their citizens. During my graduate work in the U.S. 30 years ago, I read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy...