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Witt has made four visits to the flood region and has swiftly provided victims with cash and other help, including a fleet of massive trucks that offer emergency communications, electrical power and water purification. Even FEMA's most vociferous congressional critic, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, seems to have softened, saying of Witt, "He absolutely gets A's for effort." His midnight bus ride to Madison might indicate that he has a lot to learn about the high-powered ways of Washington. Then again, maybe Washington could learn a thing or two from James Lee Witt...
...Maryland's Blue Cross plan suffered a drop in net worth from $122 million in 1985 to $25 million by the end of 1992. The recently departed boss, Carl Sardegna, was given compensation of $775,000, twice the average for the Blues. In return the plan's policyholders received abysmal service marred by delays and lost claims. U.S. Senate investigators accused Sardegna and colleagues of overstating the company's net worth, keeping its directors in the dark and printing deceptive advertising about its fiscal health...
...problem is that such figures are furnished by the companies. Naturally, if the numbers are fudged, as they allegedly were in New York and Maryland, then all tallies are suspect. And, as Senator Nunn put it last week, "If this nation is ever to truly reform its health-care system, we must find a way to hold insurers accountable to their subscribers, to regulators and to the public at large...
...rode last week in a helicopter to a housing construction site in Frederick, Maryland, President Clinton pored over a marked-up, highlighted and dog-eared copy of the legal writings of Lani Guinier. It was far too late for him to emerge undamaged from her nomination to be Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, but he hoped to find that the views of his nominee had been misread. Gradually and reluctantly, he came to the conclusion that even if some of them had been, his beliefs and Guinier's could not be reconciled. When he huddled in late afternoon with...
...episode served to focus minority groups not only on Guinier but also, in a possibly more enduring way, on Clinton's move toward the middle. "The people who put Bill Clinton in the White House are angry. To some extent, they do feel betrayed," declared Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, which has 40 members. In an implied threat of political retribution, he added that the caucus was "reassessing and re- evaluating its relationship with this Administration...