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January and February are the slow months for Broadway theater, but that can't entirely explain the critical raptures that have greeted Edward Albee's latest work, "The Play About the Baby." Albee hasn't written a good play in decades, but somehow he's managed to work himself back into the good graces of the New York reviewers, who periodically get very protective of once-great playwrights down on their luck. Still, it's hard for me to imagine any real people - i.e., those who don't have to write about theater for a living - coming away from this...
...exciting and surprising display of compromise, Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) has stepped over party lines to hammer out a compromise over a patients' bill of rights with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass). The McCain-Kennedy bill defines patients' rights for emergency care and treatment by specialists. But, most importantly, the bill also provides for a new patient's right to sue health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that do not provide adequate care...
...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...
...everybody is so enthusiastic. Representative Edward Markey (D., Mass.) promptly declared himself "appalled" and issued a statement peppered with words like "Orwellian" and "nightmare." The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for public hearings and has requested all documents relating to the surveillance. "It's chilling, the notion that 100,000 people were subject to video surveillance and had their identities checked by the government," says Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the A.C.L.U. "We think the rights of the fans in Tampa were violated...
...Presidente even worked his magic on Senators who had been gunning for his most conservative Cabinet nominees. "You know your way around here," he told one of his first guests for coffee in the Oval Office. "Recognize the desk?" And indeed, Edward Kennedy did--it had been his brother's. When Kennedy reached the microphones after the meeting, he was full of praise for Bush's new education plan. They still had their differences over giving vouchers to parents who want to take their children out of failing public schools, Kennedy said, "but I can't emphasize enough the other...