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...company turned a deaf ear to the protests of my medical team--my gynecologist, radiologist and surgeon. In the end I canceled my policy, preferring to be uninsured rather than pay for a worthless plan. Under Florida law, I was entitled to nothing more than an internal review by the insurer--I couldn't sue in state court. But if the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patient Protection bill becomes law in something close to its current form, it would let me sue. (The alternative Breaux-Frist-Jeffords bill would allow a lawsuit but put more obstacles in the way.) I might...
...light of the Timothy McVeigh case, it is absolutely unsurprising that Americans turn a deaf ear to European cries against capital punishment [NATION, May 21]. The policymakers of the U.S. must be either deliberately ignorant or blind to the happenings in other parts of the world, but they are steering the U.S. toward isolationism...
...invited us. 'Yes, wonderful, come, bring the baby.' The baby had an ear infection so we didn't bring him. So we get to the zoo and they brought us inside the reptile house, so we saw iguanas and those amazing turtles that have been around for god knows how long, and like that. Just being inside looking in the cages was plenty of thrills...
...Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better able to catch his ear should Perle find the Pentagon underfunded or slow in building a missile shield. So far, he has been uncharacteristically sunny. Says he: "Personally, I haven't seen anything to criticize...
...evils---the evils of banality--- also need attention, especially when they become universal. Canned music is what you expect to hear when you die and go to hell. "De la musique, avant toute chose," advised the symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. I'll give you de la musique: In one ear, in the other...