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Thomson Professor of Government James E. Alt, who studies British politics, said that the British government had “some success” in its recent health care reforms, particularly in its push to reduce hospital waiting lists. But he also acknowledged—as did the reports Berwick cited—that Britain’s health care system has several hurdles that it must still overcome...
...ADVENTURES OF KID ASTRO Imagine Ziggy Stardust--era David Bowie doing the theme for a Nickelodeon cartoon, and you'll have the title track, a 3-min. rock operetta about a space boy who gets powers from a magic comet (but still has to go to school). From there, alt rocker turned children's rocker Ralph Covert runs through genres like a kid hitting every ride at a theme park: British Invasion backbeats, infectious Buddy Holly stomps and fanciful finger picking...
...wholesome girl-next-door looks had already led to a healthy career as a top fashion model, but Carol Alt was ready "to do something a little different." That something turned out to be a 22-in. by 34-in. poster, which started selling out as soon as it hit the stores in February. She was "uncomfortable at first" with the results, and reports that her hockey star husband Ron Greschner was a "little shocked when the actual poster came out." But Alt, 24, has no regrets about posing. The new exposure helped her land her first acting part...
...into epic solos, then crams long sentences into her mouth and spits them out in a few exuberant bars. Her music - from Tin Pan Alley to Carole King-style folk - is also a stylistic melting pot. Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Were Edwards not Canadian, her second album of alt-country old-flame songs might be too vicious to take. But because she sings with a sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton or Suzanne Vega), the moments when Edwards eviscerates cads with such lines as "You say you like me in your memory...
...other points, Miller leaves the Birth print surprisingly intact. In part, this was—as Miller conceded afterwards—because his trusty laptop crashed, forcing him to let Birth run uninterrupted while he hit control-alt-delete. Meanwhile, the 136 Harvard alumni who died fighting for the Union—and whose names are engraved inside Memorial Hall—might have been turning in their graves, as Griffith’s glorification of the Confederate “Lost Cause” played in its original form for three full minutes...