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...proposed Aetna Inc. will undoubtedly play a leading role in determining which perception prevails. For staid and paternalistic Aetna, a longstanding leader in traditional indemnity plans (you pick the doctors; they pick up the bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the brave new world of managed care, where consumers must choose from a company-approved network of doctors, who agree to fixed charges for most services. Or consumers can join health-maintenance organizations, which directly employ doctors and nurses. "We are going into the managed-care business because that's what people...
...quarters on the second floor of the White House, within earshot of just about everything that happened. They were career officers, not political appointees, all holdovers from the Bush Administration. Hillary, in particular, had the sense that some of them didn't like her and Bill, preferring the more staid Bushes. Hillary told Vince she wanted their own people installed in the White House detail...
Republican presidential primaries are normally royalist affairs, staid rituals of continuity posing briefly as wild free-for-alls. While Democrats can often be counted on to stage long catfights that rip apart the party so deeply that reassembly by November is impossible, Republicans prefer one-act passion plays in primogeniture. From watching Democrats, the G.O.P. has learned the cost of indulging in party soul searching for more than a few weeks...
Jennifer A. Fraulo '96 is perfectly right that Cambridge would be a more vibrant community if it retained the diversity of young and old, rich and poor, bohemian and staid middle class, rather than be a homogeneous suburb of the wealthy. (Letter to the Editor...
Also, as the avant-garde cognoscenti are well aware, Seattle in recent years has been in the forefront of many important cultural trends only later taken up by the staid and complacent Brahmins of the Eastern seaboard. Slackers and grunge, to name but two. Whatever they are, exactly...