Word: helpful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Despite entering the game having allowed more goals than any other league team, Columbia was able to outlast 22 Harvard shots, including 10 in the second half. Blessed by some help from the goalposts, Ierardi sparkled in net, making eight saves. The Lions keeper was especially effective in the latter stages of the match, as her five second-half stops paved the way for the Lions to win in overtime...
PLAN: Give uninsured families a $2,000 tax credit to help purchase insurance. Pass a patients' bill of rights with a restricted right to sue HMOs. Turn Medicare into an insurance subsidy, giving seniors money for private insurance and prescription-drug coverage...
IMPACT: A patients' bill with such a limited right to sue keeps lawsuits from driving costs up but leaves patients little recourse if HMOs don't play fair. Privatizing Medicare will help cure its long-term financial troubles, but it risks creating a class system: full coverage for wealthy and low-income seniors, while those in the middle struggle to afford plans with prescription coverage...
...Gore had a crisis with politics after Vietnam. He drifted through divinity school and into journalism, but as his biographer Bill Turque notes, his longtime friends saw this as just stretching the rubber band before it yanked him back to the family business. Why else practice the tricks that help you remember people's names and faces, take that speed-reading course? He may not have been a natural, but he was willing to work at it, visit more factories, drive farther, sleep less. Before heading off to his very first political speech at the Carthage, Tenn., courthouse...
...Tennessee constituents were more conservative than he, as his father had discovered about himself only too late, so Al's Harvard friends and his journalistic colleagues were surprised to hear him defending gun owners, calling homosexuality "abnormal" and making pro-life-sounding noises. But Gore believed he couldn't help people if they didn't trust him, see him as one of them, and the main thing he promised to do was fight for his people, for their Social Security checks, for universal telephone service, for the sacred Tennessee Valley Authority...