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...self-pity and narcissism in Hillary Clinton's Living History are breathtaking [BOOK EXCERPT, June 16]. Apparently she learned nothing from her White House experience. Clinton seems to regret that there wasn't a depression or national disaster to help her ram the socialized health-care scheme through Congress. For the Clintons, citizens are just pawns in their game for political and personal power. It is clear that Hillary does not have the best temperament for the political arena. GREGG MCCONNELL Newbury Park, Calif...
...cities, and returning them to their hometowns. In reality, say human-rights experts and those who have experienced the system firsthand, it's a terrifyingly arbitrary and routinely abused tool of state power that, at its worst, amounts to little more than a police-enforced kidnapping-and-ransom scheme...
...psychiatrists commit sane political dissidents to mental institutions. In March and April, hundreds of doctors knew that Party officials were risking lives by denying the scope of the SARS epidemic. Only one, 71-year-old military doctor Jiang Yanyong, went public with damning information. His colleagues, meanwhile, abetted a scheme to hide SARS patients in Beijing from World Health Organization inspectors. "Medicine is supposed to be the most ethical profession," says Qiu Renzhong, a medical ethicist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "but Chinese doctors work in the most unethical environment...
...investment culture for the first time - just when the outlook is bleak. For others, it will mean holding their noses and forging ahead despite lousy market conditions. Not even large corporations are safe - in the U.K., the government is drawing up plans for compulsory insurance for some corporate pension schemes, many of which currently face huge deficits. A few simple rules can help you navigate Europe's new reality. Develop steady habits Even as he watched the FTSE index plummet from its all-time high at the end of 1999, Barry Lake, 48, kept investing. The surveyor from Rayleigh, England...
...brilliant” scheme didn’t work out as he’d hoped. B.J. ended up kneeling on the runway, handcuffed, in the care of a group of unsmiling police officers...