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...hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience. None of which I have found in a machine...
...19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today. In 2000, fewer than 3% of Brazilians still owned more than two-thirds of the arable land, and the divide between the rich southeast and destitute northeast, where Lula was born, was as stark as ever...
...Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918, and on the air there at age 17, Paul Harvey Aurandt settled in Chicago after stints at several Midwest stations, including one in St. Louis, Mo., where he found a lifelong partner, his wife Lynne. His show, News and Comment, began on ABC radio in 1951 and eventually had a weekly audience of 12 million. In 2000, ABC reupped Harvey with a 10-year, $100 million contract...
...delivered in German, adding to the otherness of the film’s overall impression—and most information is relayed through the voiced-over narrative confessions of Aya and her soulmate Temelko (Maximilian Mauff), the two romantic protagonists. At the start of the film, they are born on the same day, in adjoining beds, and from that moment on, they know they belong together. When they reach 14, Temelko attempts to sleep with Aya. After asking her mysterious, intimidating grandmother—who can read the stars—the best course of action, Aya refuses, deciding...
...sounds and influences that are not his own. Saddler, who debuted his craft at block parties and nightclubs throughout the South Bronx in the 1970s, puzzlingly indulges in bass-laden, ominous beats that elicit doomsday scenarios and desolate imagery. “What if hip-hop was never born?” an electronically slurred voice asks on “What If,” before KRS-One delves into a harrowing description of this hypothetical world. Another portion of the album is dedicated to bland, generic grooves that are heavily indebted to R&B, rather than...