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...case for this (as with Social Security) is that life expectancy has increased since the program started, and therefore 65 is no longer as old as it used to be. The case against it is that cutting benefits in this particular way takes most from those who happen to die earlier--disproportionately, blacks and the poor--after paying into the system all their working lives. They are already losers in both the game of life and the game of Medicare. Why penalize them further...
...that, however, Michaels will need a sharper editing eye than some feel he demonstrated last season. "I saw pretty good sketches die on the way to the screen," notes Michael McKean, another departing cast member. "If a sketch asked a lot of an audience, they didn't want it. By and large, you had one smart piece within the 90 minutes." Michaels will need to come up with a lot more of those next season if Saturday Night is to live again...
...adults and adolescents ("Miracle on 34th Street," "Apollo 13"). "A-3" films are suitable for adults only ("Bye, Bye Love"). "A-4" is for adults, with reservations and caution ("The Bridges of Madison County"). And the rating you've been waiting for, O, means morally offensive ("Die Hard With a Vengeance," "Exotica" and "Two Girls in Love"). Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, today responded that the current system "is for everyone: Jews, Catholics, heretics, agnostics. Everyone!" Photographs...
...children from hundreds of preindustrial cultures, dating back to 4,000 B.C. He has yet to find the scattered bone bruises that are the skeletal hallmark of "battered-child syndrome." In some modern societies, Walker estimates, such bruises would be found on more than 1 in 20 children who die between the ages of one and four. Walker accounts for this contrast with several factors, including a grim reminder of Hobbesian barbarism: unwanted children in primitive societies were often killed at birth, rather than resented and brutalized for years. But another factor, he believes, is the public nature of primitive...
Once, Dead was God; now God is dead. With rock stars, such news is a shock but not a surprise. Garcia, whose private funeral service was held Friday (the guest of honor attired in black T shirt and sweats), was the fourth Dead member to die. Three keyboard players preceded him: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, in 1973 of cirrhosis of the liver; Keith Godchaux, in 1980 after a car crash; and Brent Mydland, in 1990 after shooting a speedball--cocaine and morphine...