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...debates, the Administration has been endlessly weighed down by the sheer complexity of its 1,342-page bill. "Sure it's complicated, because it's working with the existing system and the existing system is phenomenally complicated," says Princeton sociologist Paul Starr, an architect of the plan. But that explanation is no help in winning support. Asked if even he comprehends all the details of the plan, a White House aide who is helping develop the Administration's sales pitch replies incredulously, "Of course...
...consul Marc Anatomy (Thomas I. Parks '96), who travels to Egypt and falls in love with nymphomaniacal Queen Neferenuff (Michael A. Stone '95). There's Nefferenuff's court: tough Leda Uvdapak (Evan M. Sandman '96), pothead handmaiden Isis Melting (Harris Hartman '95), soothsayer Horace Cope (Mark H. Baskin '95), architect Ramses Pointakross (Mark R. Fish...
...watching two years' work go down the drain in about 48 hours, Ira Magaziner, the architect of Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan, had a strangely delighted air at the White House senior staff meeting last Thursday morning. The afternoon before, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate executives, had supported the alternative plan drafted by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. In a few hours, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order...
...flaws. By some estimates, it would increase the budget deficit by $70 billion over the next five years. "We haven't been able to get the message out that if people want to pay $3,000 for health insurance, then Cooper is their plan," said Sara Rosenbaum, a co-architect with Magaziner of the Clinton approach. "But if they want to pay $700, they | should vote for the Clinton model...
...visionary Swiss architect Le Corbusier once drew up a plan to modernize Paris that called for razing most of the central city and replacing the old structures with eighteen 60-story towers. His idea, says historian Robert Fishman of Rutgers University, was that "cities were completely out of touch with the modern world and modern technology and what they needed was shock therapy, or what he called 'urban surgery,' in order to make a complete break with the past." Fortunately, Paris survived Le Corbusier. But the idea might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could...