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Chairman Mao Tsetung, the architect and chief engineer of Communist China, had a randy, raunchy side, according to his doctor and confidant. Physician Li Zhisui writes in his 663-page memoir, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," that the iconic leader was a decadent, selfish cutthroat who enjoyed nightly massages, orgiastic romps and extramarital sex with young girls. Among the other grisly details: the doc says Mao didn't care about spreading a sexually-transmitted disease, stayed in his bathrobe weeks at a time and drank green tea in lieu of brushing his teeth...
...husband, Michael Allen, is an architect...
...reform he can get, as does a shrinking band of moderate Republicans led by Rhode Island Senator John Chafee. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, is one of the diehards. He told TIME, "I've never thought the best should be the enemy of the good." And Ira Magaziner, chief architect of the now abandoned Clinton plan, is gamely working with Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania and other Senate liberals on a "Kids First" plan to extend insurance to children who now lack it. All these players are wearing their game faces; they expect the health-care struggle to continue right...
...Start-Up Memo. Magaziner, the reform architect, knew reform would be an uphill struggle. In his initial memo to Mrs. Clinton, dated Jan. 26, 1993, he listed "likely criticisms" that the plan would generate: "Cost containment would be ineffective and have perverse results . . . Limiting spending on health-care through global budgets will lead to service rationing, and interfere with quality improvements and consumers' traditional freedom to spend . . . Universal coverage would involve redistribution of income and disrupt satisfactory arrangements for many Americans." To this Magaziner added an ironic warning to himself, which he apparently would forget: "The task force should plan...
...everyone involved in the fractious debate has political ambitions. Jorge Albertini, 26, an architect who emigrated in 1980, believes his countrymen have lost the will to help themselves. "The majority of people there are used to the system taking care of them. Now that it's not, they're so concerned with the lack of food, electricity and gas that they've forgotten about the . greater goal of getting rid of Castro." Albertini wants the U.N. to impose a total blockade on Cuba, even if such a move causes heightened hardship for residents, including his grandmother and aunt. "A blockade...