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...mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured; for the thousands of people who actually felt the earth shudder and heard the screams; for the now parentless children and childless parents--the balm of time hardly seems medicine enough...
...many patients, TennCare has been like a balm. Those people who never had health coverage are "happy just because they have a TennCare card in their pocket," says Gordon Bonnyman, a Tennessee legal-services lawyer. And many Medicaid recipients like the shift to managed care, since it provides an opportunity to build a relationship with a primary-care physician...
...outraged Henry David Thoreau wrote, "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." Angry rhetoric is not new. But neither is America's balm for it. Thoreau would vanish into the woods of Walden to deal quietly with despair. And in the moments of silence Americans devote to contemplating the probable causes of the horrors of Oklahoma, another venerable piece of Thoreau's advice should resurface: "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Nina Burleigh, James...
Behold the Slavic pope is coming, a brother of the people; He already pours the world's balm into our breasts, And the angel choirs sweep the throne for him, with flowers...
...French politician hoping to run for office again, such disclosures -- so thoroughly and dispassionately documented -- would be ruinous. The Occupation years still chafe at the French national conscience. Hence the soothing balm of national discourse: All of France belonged to the Resistance except for a tiny band of traitors and collaborators in Vichy...