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...Stark, who chairs the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, criticized the plan for its reliance on support from individual state governments because of their dubious record in providing adequate universal care...
...anything wrong with the clubs' inherent elitism. Once they achieve their goal, it's unlikely that they'll push any further. Those who are left fighting classism will face a much tougher battle. If the boycott achieves its goals, privileged women will join privileged men as systematized elitists--a dubious achievement...
...Administration is still trying to mollify the dubious and the displeased. Over the weekend White House health adviser Ira Magaziner sat down to write 150-odd changes into the 239-page draft that was widely leaked two weeks ago. One sample: to reassure women's groups, the Administration put obstetricians and gynecologists with the "primary-care physicians" whose numbers it wants to swell, rather than with the "specialists" whose ranks it intends to thin. Magaziner expects to make about as many more changes in each of the three or four remaining weeks between Clinton's speech and the submission...
Anyone who has ever said that dinner is the most unappetizing meal served by the Harvard University Dining Service obviously never gets up in time for breakfast. Large hunks of eggs of dubious backgrounds. Noodles laden with fat and other unappetizing substances. Stale peach muffins. Hash browns hashed beyond recognition. Maypo (whatever that...
Alternative rock: however Nirvana defines it. Despite the fears of some alternative-music fans, Nirvana hasn't gone mainstream, though this potent new album may once again force the mainstream to go Nirvana. In Utero's one misstep may be the dubious song Rape Me: "Rape me, my friend . . . rape me again." It's meant to be antirape, but beer-blown frat boys may or may not get the irony. The last and best song, All Apologies, seems to anticipate and confront such questions: "What else should I be/ All apologies . . . What else could I write...