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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that does happen, I'd rather be sipping martinis in my townhouse than gulping malt liquor on the corner. Here's what's really wrong with me though: I'm an idealist without any ideals. I don't have a burning desire to be a writer, or a doctor, or any number of honorable pursuits. I can't sell out my dreams and passions because I don't have any inventory...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, Clinton's executive order has more clout, since it could take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform. The President also received a pledge from the American Hospital Association to compile data on errors from its 5,000 member hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Reform, Plan B — Amputate the Errors | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...artillery fire of the current war. Thousands of rockets and shells rained down on the city, according to the Russian media. The few journalists in the city say hospitals are overflowing. The breakaway government claims more than 4,000 have died, though this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles southeast of Grozny, said during a visit to Chechnya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chechen Hell | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...emperor of the Internet. He has a 300-year--yes, that's 300-year--plan to invest in so many companies on the Web that no matter what country you're in, whether you're looking for a broker or a bouquet of flowers, a car or a doctor, you'll have to enter his realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Christ on the cross, and by the end shouts his anguish to all who will listen. Debra Winger as Ivanov's wronged and ignored wife Sarah goes from the almost unbearably saintly (Sarah of the Infinite Patience) straight to Medea mode (Sarah the Terrible). And Benjamin Evett as her doctor comes across more like the Scourge of God than a concerned physician...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Russian vs. Russian: Ivanov Revisited | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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