Word: cures
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...gambling. In the good old days, they say in their voice-over narration (of which there is far too much), the place was to wiseguys what "Lourdes was to hunchbacks and cripples," a holy ground where organized crime was free to practice its amoral rites and where that miracle cure for the terminally outcast--sudden, improbable wealth--was always a real possibility. There's something a little too easy in this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion that it is the tragic flaw of hubris that eventually robs Sam and Nicky...
...actions of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, which recommended speedy approval of two new AIDS drugs, including the first of a new class of compounds called protease inhibitors. Although FDA commissioner David Kessler was quick to praise the new drugs, neither medication can prevent or cure AIDS once it has taken hold...
Oddly, and sadly, the solution does not answer the fear. Politics is no cure for cultural assimilation. A flag and an anthem do not assure cultural vitality. The faith that they will is as desperate as it is sentimental...
...logic of income inequality and stagnant wages suggests that the ideology of people like Bob Dole and Phil Gramm may leave them at least as "impotent" on the issue as Clinton, if not more so. And a close look at Buchanan's attempt to fashion a maverick Republican cure for the problem only underscores that prospect...
President Clinton's proposed cure for the wage problem--creating a better-educated, more highly skilled work force--is in theory more versatile than Buchanan's. True, the Clinton approach was crafted with trade in mind; Labor Secretary Robert Reich, like Buchanan, stresses the role of economic globalization in displacing low-skilled American workers. But Reich's plan, unlike Buchanan's, makes about equal sense regardless of what the problem is. Whether workers are displaced by low-skilled immigrants, low-skilled foreigners or technology, they need new skills...