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...network arm, aims to increase that number to 850 in about five years -- though she faces intense competition from two other networks that are also signing up doctors at a frenzied pace. At times the competition gets bizarre: the 20-physician Concord Hillside Medical Associates in a Boston suburb was bought out by the Lahey Hitchcock network earlier this month. But Emerson Hospital in Concord, where the Hillside group sends many of its patients, is simultaneously negotiating to join the rival Partners network. "The situation is filled with fault lines and tensions,'' says Geoffrey Cole, president of Emerson. Cole doesn...
...religious conservatives, ordered the Education Department to distribute guidelines to the nation's schools pointing out thatstudents can already pray in the classroom. "The First Amendment does not convert our schools into religion-free zones," Clinton said in an address at James Madison High School in a northern Virginia suburb. Instead, he pointed out, the Constitution allows students to read Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals and take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests, as I used to do." Social conservatives...
...prospect of liberation was an illusion, residents of Sarajevo found their optimism choked off. Hope, like everything else inside the city, now needs to be rationed carefully; overindulging only makes the want of it more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on the street in the suburb of Dobrinja. The day was sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such moments," said Nenad Tupajic...
...placed under guard at collection points around Sarajevo. What came as a surprise last week was that Bosnian government forces joined so eagerly in the abuse of UNPROFOR. They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians were posted, and disarmed a Russian unit at a U.N. observation post in the suburb of Mojmilo, south of the capital. At the same time, government troops emulated the Serbs by retrieving 42 mortars and artillery pieces from a U.N. weapons-collection station...
...work, was so incensed at the tardiness of the bodyguards assigned to him by the government that he gave all of them Rolexes to keep accurate time. Last week the only security guard at his empty white-washed house at 2114 204th Street, in Havana's elegant Atabey suburb, turned journalists away, saying, "If you want to know more, please direct your inquiries to Villa Marista." Villa Marista is the headquarters of Cuba's state police, who deal with only the most sensitive cases and do not give up secrets easily. Was Vesco under arrest? "Yes," confirmed the guard...