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...peacemaking style, the gulf between the Israeli leader's final offer and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's bottom line may have been too wide to be bridged by a U.S. administration that will be out of office six months from now. Barak's coalition crisis will only narrow his scope for concessions...
...everything you want in an epic: sweep, scope, wild reversals of fortune and plenty of bold, basic emotions. It offers a stalwart hero and a sneering villain, bloody battles and daring rescues, tender love, heedless cruelty and, above all, scores of attractive human beings who have pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a desperate but noble cause...
...high tech does not stay high tech forever. Nor does it march in a straight line. The unanticipated and unintended consequences of new technology can be as significant as its promise, especially if we proceed without comprehending the scope of technology's impact on humanity and the planet...
...death penalty has varied. There were 1,289 executions in the 1940s and 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell to 191 by 1976. In 1966 support for capital punishment reached an all-time low, 42%. And the Supreme Court began a series of decisions limiting the scope of the death penalty, effectively outlawing it in 1972. When the court reinstated the penalty in 1976, it mandated that certain procedures, such as separate deliberations for determining guilt and sentencing, were to be followed...
That means, first and foremost, altering Aetna's aggressive corporate culture, which has felt free to second guess doctors' decisions. "We have the scale and scope to be a really good business. But we should be managing by exception--our presumption should be that 80% to 90% of the medical community is doing a good job." Aetna may follow the lead of United HealthCare, which last fall ended precertification--the infuriating process by which doctors must get approval from a distant voice on the phone for many tests and treatments...