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...exact GPA necessary to receive a Detur was not released, but the prize is given to the top students in Group I of the rank lists as determined by their first-year grades...
...report card found that 86.7% of Health Net's members rated the plan good to excellent, slightly below the mean for the 21 large plans surveyed. On specific measures that the organization believes reflect a plan's quality, such as how often it provides mammograms, Health Net tended to rank at the mean or just below, but lagged sharply in providing prenatal care for mothers and retinal screens for diabetics--the kind of preventive care at which managed-care companies are supposed to excel. The report card also showed that Health Net spent less on medical care than most...
Jeff Glasser, 21, a senior from Montclair, J.J., said the graduate students' submission "shows an unlucky weakness" in the group's rank and file...
...what some rank-and-file cops refer to as "Bratton taking the cuffs off us" has increased force, abuse and discourtesy complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board 30%. Many of the complaints have never been investigated by the CCRB and are impossible to evaluate. Still, some New Yorkers fear the N.Y.P.D.'s new swagger. "A lot of people aren't comfortable with this style," says Kelly. "It goes to the question of what kind of policing we want in America. You can probably shut down just about all crime, if you're willing to burn down the village...
...sister stayed with his father, another sister stayed with his mother. McVeigh's high school teachers and classmates remember him as intelligent (his IQ is a well-above-average 125), an excellent student in subjects that interested him and a quiet but friendly companion. His final grade-point ranking was not quite high enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the 1991 Gulf War as a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner and immediately thereafter volunteered for the Special Forces (Green Beret) qualification...