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  • False claims: patient rights under attack

    False claims: patient rights under attack

    July 18, 2003

    Opinions In 1989, Michael Hatch, then Commerce Commissioner of Minnesota, released an investigation of two medical malpractice insurance companies finding that each had increased doctors’ malpractice premiums some 300 percent. Yet the number of claims against...

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  • More thoughts on affirmative action

    More thoughts on affirmative action

    July 18, 2003

    Opinions The morning of the affirmative action workshop at the Rainbow/PUSH coalition conference last month was the very same morning that the Supreme Court released its controversial and divided decisions in the twin University of Michigan...

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  • Where is Smedley when we need him?

    Where is Smedley when we need him?

    July 18, 2003

    Opinions Official publicity surrounding the Iraq War gives no indication that military people might harbor dissenting views or be reluctant to obey orders. But the voices of soldiers who said “no” crop up in the historical...

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  • Questions on Cuba

    Questions on Cuba

    July 18, 2003

    Opinions Who can deny that there are a great number of prisoners in Cuba suffering the most severe jail conditions existing in today’s world? For them there is neither day nor night because they are blindfolded...

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  • Thoughts on the Supreme Court rulings

    Thoughts on the Supreme Court rulings

    July 11, 2003

    Opinion NAACP President Kweisi Mfume hailed the Supreme Court’s June 22 ruling upholding the University of Michigan law school admissions program, calling it a “major victory” for affirmative action. “The Michigan model now becomes the operative...

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