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Finally, there are those who argue that litigation actually slows the progress of medicine. "Innovative techniques don't get used very often for this reason," says George Miller, an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, N.C., who last year won a malpractice suit that had dragged on for "eight long years." Doctors find themselves taking a more rote approach, what some call "cookbook medicine." By following standard procedures as much as possible, the physician may hope to avoid any controversy that might arise in court -- and thus steers clear of promising, if less proven technologies and treatments...
There is a basic distinction that cuts through this free-for-all over freedom. It is the distinction, too often neglected, between censorship and censure (the free expression of moral disapproval). What the campuses are trying to do (at least those with state money) is use the force of government to contain freedom of speech. What Donald Wildmon, the free-lance moralist from Tupelo, Miss., does when he gets Pepsi to cancel its Madonna ad is censure the ad by calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic...
During the 18 months that he labored in his father's campaign headquarters, acting as the family enforcer among the hired handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what...
...remembers finding Washington a "hostile environment." The campaign operation was often a mud wrestle among contending egos. "I was the loyalty thermometer," he says. Frequently he cut through bureaucratic inertia to get necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to reporters that Atwater and other heavyweights had. Yet it was Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used...
Because people are not saints, they often do as little as possible to get by. Not all of them, but enough to cripple the system. Yes, they can earn more rubles by producing more goods. But what good are more rubles when there's so little worth buying...