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Medicare was a treacherous battlefield before anyone suggested a new entitlement. Most experts agree that adding items and fundamentally reforming Medicare will require some kind of sacrifice by beneficiaries, either paying higher premiums or delaying the eligibility age. But suggesting such reforms may carry a high political price. "There are some in both parties who want the election to be based on whose fault it is we did nothing about Medicare," says Democratic Senator John Breaux, whose yearlong Medicare commission failed to come to consensus largely over the issue of how much coverage to provide for drugs. Says Breaux: "Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Swallow Medicare's Bitter Pills? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

That theme was at once simple and sophisticated: a man (or sometimes a group of men), without thinking very hard about it, places his faith either in his own rationality or in the rationality of the systems by which his world is governed, whereupon something goes awry, his illusions of order are stripped away, and he is left to fend with the sometimes deadly, always devastating consequences of that loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Eyes On Them | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

This weekend, McCain was the first candidatefrom either party to venture "north of theNotch"--into the sparsely populated, heavilyRepublican region north of Franconia Notch, thesame part of the state that propelled Patrick J.Buchanan to his surprise victory in the 1996G.O.P. primary...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: McCain Hits the Road in New Hampshire | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...think either Harvard or Radcliffe really appreciated how much work was going to be involved in so many areas," Taylor said. "We're cooperating, and things are on track...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Merger Deadline Passes | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...meet anyone--native or otherwise--who claims to understand politics here. To paraphrase Churchill's opinion of the USSR, "It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a code." I don't quite get it, but I take comfort in the fact that nobody else seems to, either...

Author: By John F. Coyle, | Title: You're Safe With a Yankee Drawl | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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