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...Peacekeeping is one of them. "The Americans," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "hate peacekeeping, and they're not very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after...
...patients' bill of rights, which does nothing to help the uninsured and could actually make costs rise even more. Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy have quietly reopened negotiations on the question of whether and how patients should be allowed to sue their managed-care companies. But while the HMO-reform measure was a crowd pleaser when the idea started kicking around five years ago, it is merely a "version of the Maginot Line" against the health-care problems facing the country, says Steven Schroeder, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which leads a coalition of business, labor and health...
...BELTWAY BOOKS: On May 13, Simon & Schuster will publish "Citizen McCain" by Elizabeth Drew. Kirkus gives the book a thumbs up. "Washington insider and accomplished journalist Drew provides a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the congressional maverick and his struggle to reform campaign-finance laws...Drew clearly approves of McCain, though never so much as to allow partisanship to get in the way of her usual careful reporting. A useful expos? of how things get done - and buried - in Washington...
...welfare reform bill was hailed both by its Republican authors and former President Bill Clinton, who co-opted it as the pièce de resistance in dismantling the Great Society and replacing it with an era of so-called personal responsibility. The bill took a federal entitlement program and broke it up into 50 different allocations that the states could use for welfare purposes as they saw fit with a few provisos: for example, half of all single parents receiving welfare had to work at least 30 hours per week. Conveniently enacted in a buoyant economy, the bill...
...seen HSPH prosper and expand but by the end of his term, he came into conflict with many of his students. Around the time of the 1969 undergraduate sit-in of University Hall, the School of Public Health saw increasingly frequent disagreements between its students and faculty over curricular reform...