Word: mcdermott
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...folding up the tent" for this year. In Congress, he observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer" health system in which the government pays all medical bills from tax revenue. He declared last week that he could not support any incremental reforms, observing that Congress is "getting into that political mode where you want to do something...
...fact, relief officials counter, the Tutsi victors showed great restraint in their conduct of the four-year civil war and their prescriptions for peace. "The one remarkable thing that we've seen is enormous discipline by the R.P.F. and the Tutsi who have stayed inside Rwanda," says Peter McDermott, senior emergency officer at UNICEF. In a gesture of reconciliation last week, the R.P.F. named moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister, though the real power seems to be in the hands of R.P.F. General, and now Vice President, % Paul Kagame, who masterminded the military victory. More than half the government...
Seniors: Rich Beukema, John Blaney, Brent Lorenzon, Robert McDermott, Matt McKay, Craig Narveson, David Osterhus, Richard...
...other end of the spectrum is a bill proposed by House Democrat Jim McDermott of Washington. Modeled on the single-payer Canadian system, it puts the government in charge of allocating health-care resources, financed by substantial taxes. McDermott's plan won 90 backers in the House last year, but polls show growing public skepticism of government-run medicine. A handful of other health-care bills that have been introduced may end up as amendments to the final legislation...
...curator of the Gardner museum, Marianne McDermott, herself an Adams House affiliate, conceived of the production as a unique opportunity to combine the resources of both institutions. McDermott and Art Shettle, a resident tutor in the dramatic arts at Harvard and director of the Pool Theater Company, wanted to extend the classical theme of the Gardner's current program, "Passionate Acts in Greek Myths and Art," which features an exhibit of classical artifacts on loan from other museums, as well as seminars and lectures...