Word: vacuums
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Republicans maintain that costs can be held down without compelling all Americans to jump into the health pool. But premium leveling, the one component of health-care reform that enjoys almost universal support, cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Much like anatomy, all the pieces connect: the aging and the sick are connected to the young, who need employers to ease their new burden, who need the cooperation of other employers to spread the costs. Otherwise, the healthiest and the wealthiest will forgo insurance -- and America's health-care system could get even sicker...
...what does Oprah Winfrey have to say about Oprahization? The queen of talk is willing to concede some culpability. She says she and her colleagues have made society more sensitive to the idea that crimes are not committed in a vacuum. "What happened to you in the past is a part of who you are today," she says. However, she adds, "If, in the process, we have made people think that people are not responsible for their lives, then that is a fault." Ever the pioneer, she delivered that opinion last February on a segment entitled Can You Get Away...
...marginal, and are reluctant to divert resources to it. Faculty specializing in ethnic studies, consequently, will only be hired if an independent body with independent funding to hire then is created. This argument is advanced not to say that ethnic studies exists or ought to exist in a vacuum, independent of existing methods and areas of study; ethnic studies is actually interconnected with so many different areas and incorporates so many different methodologies that it cannot be logically subsumed under any one existing department...
...much hate accumulate in so small a country? Historians could point to Rwanda as a case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British 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...
...successfully. But one who does not then requires a strong team to run things, and that Clinton does not have. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Lake are intelligent, hard-working and well informed, but neither is exactly a take-charge guy. Perry has tried to step into the vacuum, but he has made some impolitic statements that clashed embarrassingly with evolving policy...