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...FEWER THAN FIVE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ARE health-care policy. The plan proposed by President Clinton calls for strict government regulations and market reforms to extend health insurance to all Americans. It would be paid for by higher cigarette taxes and mandated employer contributions. Because the bill has been criticized as being too sweeping and too costly, some congressional Democrats have been working to forge a compromise version of the President's proposal that would take into account elements of rival plans. An alternative that is palatable to many conservatives, proposed by House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, would rely...
...letter, I implied that many of Peninsula's writers attended "strict religious schools." A few of the current members of Peninsula's staff have let me know that this is not the case with the current board, and that they mean to take action against this statement...
They did not say whether they would respond to the rest of my letter. I explained that what I meant to say was "strict religious upbringing," an error which I later recognized and credit to my haste in wanting to respond to Lat's editorial...
Again, I should restate my claim: most Peninsula members have not been "educated in strict religious schools" but rather are the products of "strict religious upbringing." For, as Peninsula members now know first hand, one word can make all the difference. Inie Park...
...pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule was far less strict in Rwanda than in South Africa or Rhodesia, the legacy of Belgian rule all but guaranteed the violence that has erupted...