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...Colorado Springs in the 1860s. The residents are surprised and dismayed to discover that their new doctor is a woman (her name, unhelpfully, is Michaela), but she quickly proves her skills. In the meantime, she takes over the care of three youngsters whose mother has died of a rattlesnake bite. "After my real ma went to heaven, Dr. Mike got to be my ma down here on earth," explains the youngest. "And she loves me just the same...
...night was dark/ and love was a burning fence/ about my house," she writes at the end of "Gemini." "Quiet love hangs/ in the door of my house/ a sheet of brick-caught silk/ rent in the sun" concludes "Echo", also written in the 1950s. But "Dreams Bite", written in 1968, ends "I shall love/ again/ when I am obsolete...
...many rough spots during the campaign. If he could admit to trying marijuana and having marital problems, why not admit that the nanny litmus test is a mistake? He could bring on the cameras, sit in front of a glowing hearth in the White House family quarters and pensively bite his lower lip. "As working parents," one can imagine him saying, "Hillary and I understand the anguish of searching for quality day care for children." He could insert some touching anecdote about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea had the chicken pox and the baby- sitter...
...largest in U.S. corporate history, almost all of it due to the costs of health care for the company's 594,000 retirees and their families. Forced by new accounting rules to reflect the burden of its retiree benefits more clearly on its books, GM had to bite a $20.8 billion bullet. Two months ago, Ford took a $7.5 billion hit for the same reason. Those generous promises made to workers over the years have turned out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, since advances in medicine mean that people live longer after retirement and require more care...
...year; further restricting itemized deductions for upper- income taxpayers; taxing more of the Social Security benefits of high- income pensioners. Any one of these would enrage politically powerful groups, but efforts to ease the pain -- rebating gasoline taxes to lower- and middle-income people, for example -- would soften any bite taken out of the deficit. "We aren't close ((to agreement)) yet," says an adviser. "Will we be there in three weeks? Maybe...