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...Democrats, health care has long been a merciless minefield. Hillary Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dems' Universal Ailment | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard accent,” and I freely admit to being a mature representative of it. I direct my critic to the remark of the once-popular cultural critic, George Ade, who declared that his alma mater, Purdue, “gives you everything that Harvard does, except the pronunciation of a as in father.” Perhaps Mr. Bartenstein would be happier at Purdue, or perhaps at Suffolk University where he could wallow in Blue Collar Bostonese as much as he liked. Because I sound neither like Al Sharpton nor Ted Kennedy '54-'56, I clearly confuse...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: In Defense Of The Harvard Accent | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley fable with a mid-century American twist: What would happen if the Frankenstein monster were adopted by a really nice suburban mom? And if the villagers took a shine to the creature before being egged on to kill him? It's also Beauty and the Beast . Except that Edward's beauty is the beast - for most of the piece Kim pays scant attention to our hero - and, as incarnated by Depp or either of the men (Sam Archer and Richard Winsor) who dances Edward for Bourne, the beast is beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edward Scissordance | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...obvious first criticism that comes to mind when one thinks of Facebook: It’s damn creepy. There’s a voyeuristic perversity that goes along with the Facebook territory that allows all of us to peer into the inner-goings of just about everybody (well, except people with those pesky restrictions...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: Monster of a Website | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...also declined to provide other details of the study, except to say, “I wouldn’t recommend it to other people...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Anecdotes in Context | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

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