If Clinton wins.

Clinton and Crime

The Clinton Regulatory Legacy

a 1993 executive order, similar to two Reagan orders that it replaced, requiring most proposed regulations to undergo economic and risk analyses. In 1996, the Office of Management and Budget issued more detailed guidelines on how to conduct those analyses, consistent with the Clinton order. Those measures would have provided an adequate basis for review of agency-proposed rules if the administr...

Clinton offers healthcare funding ideas.

In his State of the Union address to Congress last week, President Clinton presented a shopping list of new programmes, ideas, and funding plans, including several related to health and health care. At the top of the list was a blueprint to ensure Medicare’s financial viability into the 21st century. With the first “black ink” budget in 30 years—and projections of surpluses for the next 15— the...

"Logic Wins!"

Clever algorithm design is sometimes superseded by simple encodings into logic. We apply this motto to a few case studies in the formal verification of security properties. In particular, we examine confidentiality objectives in hardware circuit descriptions written in VHDL.

Gambling, Who Wins

Gambling, Who Wins? Who loses?, edited by Gerda Reith, Ph.D, examines several wide-ranging yet important topics related to gambling. This multidisciplinary compilation of essays, some written by prominent scholars in their fields, examines such questions as: How can the alluring economic benefits of gambling be balanced against the potential harm caused to a significant minority? Is problem or ...