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...billion in cuts, while Congressional Democrats and many hard-line deficit hawks say that no cuts should be made until the budget is balanced. House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday floated a trial balloon on the issue when he said that he would consider a smaller tax cut over a shorter time period. The proposal got a cautiously enthusiastic response from the White House. "The two proposals really suggest that the balanced budget, which looked increasingly unlikely, might not be dead after all," says Tumulty...
Even if the appeal succeeds, however, it will probably result at best in reducing her term to 20 years. Berenson's only chance of a shorter sentence is clemency from President Alberto Fujimori, and the prospect is considered highly unlikely...
Changes in health care have changed the population at hospitals--patients are sicker and stay for a shorter time--and those changes are affecting medical students...
...Patients are in the hospital for much shorter stays, and they are much sicker," said Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of Harvard Medical School. "It's not a good place for the student to encounter his or her first heart attack...
...hospital stays become shorter and patients' conditions more chronic, it is less useful to have professors lecture about diseases and treatments to medical students gathered around a patient's bed, according to Tosteson...