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George Bush seems to have found the position of Secretary of Energy the hardest to fill in the entire top rank of his Administration. Not until last week did he announce the last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James...
Timothy Watkins, an engineer who had been dispatched to the area by the Cambridge DPW to check the situation, said that there was nothing out of ordinary with the working of the pipe known officially as Combined Sewer Overflow number nine.
Part of the solution to the pro bono problem is exemplified at the big Los Angeles firm Latham & Watkins, which pays its lawyers for the time they spend doing such work. Forty percent of the firm's 480 attorneys got involved last year in 107 pro bono matters, including death...
Watkins homed in on another Administration bugaboo: guaranteed confidentiality. Since the AIDS crisis began, programs to determine the focus and spread of the disease have been stymied because people at high risk have feared being stigmatized by showing up for tests. "An effective guarantee of confidentiality is the major bulwark...
Watkins proposed education initiatives that "are of such vital importance . . . that they must be implemented immediately," including comprehensive health courses in the schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's...