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Veterans' advocates and the VA itself agree that relief from congressionally mandated rules that tilt the system toward expensive in-patient care could squeeze far more bang from the buck. (Under the present system, for example, many veterans cannot receive treatment for hypertension as outpatients. They have to wait to be admitted as in-patients for a heart attack or stroke.) But while the House has passed eligibility reform, the Senate...
...such established conservative journals as the National Review and the American Spectator, is there room for one more? Livelier than the Review, less bratty than the Spectator, the Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn...
...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...
...would not be challenged from the left for the nomination. But the tension between attempting to be a general-election centrist and a primary-campaigning liberal has added to Clinton's image as chronic waffler. A similar tension will also make Dole try to retreat from his recent rightward tilt if he is nominated and has to campaign against Clinton...
...percent of Americans thinkaffirmative action programsfor minorities and women sometimes discriminate against white men, according to the latest TIME-CNN poll. Sixty three percent of those polled (a base sample of 800 adults) oppose affirmative action programs that include quotas.TIME senior writer Richard Lacayosays the results show "a real tilt against affirmative action...