title: Thunder on the left?
abstract: In the view of some critics, Donna E. Shalala is a bleeding-heart liberal, turned loose in the biggest domestic federal agency. But the new Health and Human Services Secretary has a strong pragmatic streak. And the President seems to have hired her less as an architect of social policy than as a general contractor.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kosterlitz
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services / Q000458:organization & administration*