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...prescribed for himself so that he could secretly pass them along to his daughter. Last year he used the same scheme to get her the AIDS drug 3TC. Eventually, he found a doctor willing to give him the drugs for his daughter but on his own legal responsibility. In effect, she is a one-girl test group. "I said, 'She has to get on a special trial. Her trial. My trial,'" says Juan Carlos...
...public. Presidential adviser Dick Morris resigned his post when his life among the prostitutes surfaced. Shortly afterward, so did his literary life. Random House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...
...which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch channels. Attention spans remained brief. Control remained remote...
...Wisconsin, which has pioneered welfare reform and is often touted as a national model, the crunch is coming sooner than in other states. That is partly because the latest phase of Wisconsin's law, which is called Wisconsin Works, or W-2, goes into effect Jan. 6 and requires mothers to get into a job program and parenting classes just 12 weeks after giving birth. But it is also because the state already has fairly high standards for day care in place. The challenge has been how to maintain those standards while accommodating thousands of new kids--and the struggle...
...foreseeable future, of course, most parents will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...