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...same, don't expect that by the end of this book you'll be vouchsafed a clear picture of just what those forces are. Pynchon doesn't do closure. What he does, and brilliantly, is open windows onto a universe where we're all in custody, but we're none of us sure who put on the cuffs...
...during his tenure as U.S. Attorney. "We've been polling on important voter issues since January, and corruption has never been named by more than 6%," says Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth University's Polling Institute. "Our last poll was prior to the recent arrests, but I don't expect it to climb much higher ... Property taxes are voters' No. 1 concern in this race - by a mile - followed by, and coupled with, the economy and jobs." (See the most notorious presidential pardons of all time...
...effective that were included in the stimulus bill. "If we can pass health-care exchanges, which could be expanded in the future and are the seeds of real change, this will be the most successful year of health-care reform in decades." The President wants much more; the media expect much more - but given the constraints of our middle-aged democracy, perhaps we should be happy to achieve any sort of progress...
...Analysis Group. The actors who starred as a fictitious middle-class couple in the famously devastating "Harry and Louise" spots that helped kill the Clinton health plan in 1994 are now featured in ones that push for overhaul. But the other side is just warming up, so you can expect to see plenty of nightmarish scenarios in TV advertisements featuring legions of government bureaucrats standing between patients and doctors, and long waits for lifesaving treatments. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already allocated $2 million to fight the idea of a public plan that would compete with private insurers...
...degenerate from a promising state to a dysfunctional one. We have seen unmitigated corruption and insensitivity on the part of its rulers," says Mohammed Ndume, a federal MP from Borno state. "We are seeing a lack of opportunities and so much stress for its people. So what do you expect? The people have to react, and that is what you are seeing and that is what the current crisis is all about...