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...there are alternatives. The same funding which Bush, Leland and Bradley want to commit to a Medicaid expansion could be channeled to government operated Community Health Centers (CHCs). Many of these residential clinics already provide prenatal care to low-income groups, but need more physicians. Most importantly, CHCs serve an entire community, rich and poor. Because they unite rather than isolate, they can serve as a model for a more equitable health care system...
...remainder of his life, if he behaves himself and stops assaulting his guards and quits hurling feces and food at them, he may be moved into more conventional quarters.) His room is lined with Plexiglas, and three video cameras track him constantly. He is so prone to commit mayhem that when a visitor calls, Bosket is chained backward to the inside of his cell door. When the door is swung open, there is Bosket, pinned to the bars like a specimen in a bug collection...
Bosket never met his father, but the parallels between the two men are dramatic. Each had only a third-grade education, was sentenced to the same reform school at nine, went on to commit double murders, and displayed a superior intelligence. The father's goals, however, were different: he studied hard and became the first convict in history to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After his release from prison in 1983, Bosket Sr. found work as a university teaching assistant...
From time to time a new word bursts into the lexicon, capturing with shocking force the latent fears of a troubled age. The latest such word is "wilding," the term used by a band of New York City teenagers to describe the mischief they set out to commit on a clear April night in Central Park. Looking, they said, for something to do, they roamed the park's northern reaches, splintering into smaller groups and allegedly assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees...
...afford a college education--but that needn't involve Harvard. Inviting ROTC back on campus would embrace the federal government's decision to make a free education contigent upon four years of military service. Harvard's role should be to advocate affordable education for all, not just those who commit themselves to the military...