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Harvard occasionally being the bastion of pessimism that it is, here will surely be those who see the score of Saturday's game, sigh, and crack jokes about another bad year...
Medicare is rapidly becoming the last bastion of traditional "fee-for-service" insurance, in which you are free to choose any doctor you want and have any treatment he or she recommends. And even Medicare is experimenting with managed care. For more than a decade, enrollees have had the option of joining an HMO, if one is available in their area. Some 9% are currently signed up. Medicare usually pays the HMO a premium equal to 95% of its average per person costs in the area, adjusted for a few factors like age and sex. Nevertheless, Medicare loses money...
...controversy are pro-life citizens who do not support the violence of Operation Rescue but who think that women may regret a youthful or desperate desire to abort a child. McCorvey may be seen as an important example of this increased conservatism with age. Still, she is hardly the bastion of conservative family values, having lived most of her adult life as an open lesbian...
...concerned about what children see on the Internet? Parents allow their youngsters to be bombarded daily with the garbage they see on television. Face facts, America. It is up to parents to take care of their children, not the U.S. government. Leave the Internet alone. It is the last bastion of complete freedom. JAMES E. KIRKLAND Arlington, Texas...
...most recent issue of Pensinsula has a purple 'V' emblazoned on its cover, presumably meant to herald the publication's fifth year of gracing this Bastion of Liberalism...