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...strikes against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon taught us anything, it is that terrorism knows no boundaries. The hijackers were indoctrinated and trained in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, plotted their operation in Europe and Asia, and carried it out in the U.S. Bill Clinton recognized this "transnational" fact of life in 1998, when he named Richard Clarke, a National Security Council aide, as his counterterrorism czar to supervise the battle both at home and abroad. Clarke was hamstrung because he had no control over other agencies' budgets. But he made a strong case for having...
...their employees might be the best weapon in the war against health-care inflation. Much as 401(k) savings plans have supplanted old-fashioned guaranteed pensions, such consumer-driven health plans aim to shift the responsibility--and risk--of employer health insurance to the rank and file. "We've taught people that when they put down a $10 bill and an HMO card, they're entitled to everything," says Lee Newcomer, a managed-care veteran and now chief medical officer at benefits start-up Vivius. "If you give consumers a system indifferent to price, they won't worry about...
...speakers also stressed the need to increase the number of freshmen seminars and similar small classes taught by tenured faculty—something that Harvard has been pushing in recent months...
...Kingsley Porter, later Boardman professor of fine arts, bought Elmwood from the Lowells. Although he used it as a private residence, he taught some of his advanced courses on the first floor and allowed his graduate students to make use of the extensive library in the back corner...
Indeed, a good portion of his book is dedicated to a discussion of class size, mentoring and the informal opportunities for contact between the teachers and the taught...