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...announcement Tuesday morning that he is creating a commission to investigate the problem of poor care and bureaucratic snafus in the nation's military and veterans' hospitals. To lead the commission, Bush's White House deftly picked a severely wounded ex-soldier, former GOP Senate leader and Presidential candidate Robert Dole, and an expert on health care, former Clinton Cabinet member Donna Shalala...
...Creating a commission is such an obvious idea, in fact, that the Pentagon has already beaten the White House to it. On February 23, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was launching a panel to examine the care at Walter Reed and any other military medical facilities it chooses to examine. Headed by two former Army secretaries, the eight-member group will have 45 days to investigate and report back on its findings. Of course, it isn't being called a commission; that turf belongs to Presidents and lawmakers. The Pentagon's board is more modestly called an "independent review...
Timing is everything. When former Congressman-and distinguished priest and liberal luminary-Robert Drinan died earlier this year, the Washington Post published a special appreciation. It ran together with a tribute to another notable who died just one day later: Barbaro. The horse got top billing. And does anyone remember when Mother Teresa died? The greatest saint of our time died on the frenzied eve of the funeral of the greatest diva of our time, Princess Di. In the popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron...
...trouble finding the back of the net in the game’s first frame. The Bulldogs’ Chris Cahill opened the scoring on the power play at 7:26, bouncing a shot from behind the goal line off of senior goaltender Justin Tobe’s leg. Robert Page extended Yale’s lead to 2-0 at 18:16, beating Tobe with a long-range shot from the right point. “I think maybe in the first period we kind of took a little bit of a wait-and-see attitude...
...free to criticize their professors through a new Web site that allows undergraduates to e-mail feedback anonymously to their professors. Since the site went live on Feb. 19, it has received about five to seven comments for professors each day, said Princeton’s student government president, Robert D. Biederman. According to Biederman, comments submitted to the site are reviewed by student government representatives to ensure no hostile or coarse language is used, and they are then forwarded to the intended professor. Biederman said yesterday that students and professors were both taking the comments seriously...