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...votes, people wondered if it would be all downhill from there. The government Thompson inherited was on the verge of bankruptcy because of the free-spending policies of maverick Democratic Governor Dan Walker. The statehouse was a shambles because of Walker's incessant feuding with Chicago's Cook County Democratic machine. Yet as Thompson starts his second year as Governor, he is far and away the most popular politician in the state and a reasonable contender for a place on the national ticket...
...courted the Chicago Democrats in the legislature and quietly cut a deal with them. For years they had wanted to build a new expressway on the West Side to relieve traffic congestion in the city, but Walker had balked at the project, largely because of his hostility to the Cook County Democratic machine. Thompson approved construction of a more modest expressway, and in turn the Cook County Democrats abandoned their drive to add $100 million to his proposed $3.45 billion education appropriation. "That was the make-or-break issue in the budget," says Thompson. Thanks in part to higher...
Well, as they say, if you like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing you will like. Michael Crichton, who directed Coma and wrote the screenplay, is a doctor, and so is Robin Cook, who wrote the novel from which the film was made, so presumably the two of them are not try ing to induce a nationwide spasm of hysterical loathing of the medical profession...
...Cook's story has it, highly placed bad guys in "Boston Memorial Hospital" are selling human organs illegally, and they are willing to do anything to ensure a fresh supply. The flower-like Bujold, who does not look tired enough to have finished medical school, plays Dr. Susan Wheeler, a brilliant surgical resident who stumbles prettily from creepy suspicion to grisly certainty. But no one in the hospital, including the kindly chief of staff (Richard Widmark), will take her seriously. Her lover, a crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some...
...second stanza, Captain Cook put Harvard in the lead for the first time in the contest with a power-play goal. "Barney" gathered in a pass from George Hughes--who had gotten the puck from John Cochrane on the point--skated out of the corner, looked to return a pass to Hughes, but then slipped in front of the cage to poke a backhand shot between the legs of Ed Arrington...