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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politicians who are dismantling that social contract have had to find cheaper ways to address the insecurity that voters express. Bill Clinton is a master at playing to people's fear of losing control. He offers cell phones to citizen patrols and television ratings for absent parents. As more and more corporations shovel workers into managed-care programs, Clinton unveils a new patient "bill of rights": "I think it's fair to say that almost every family feels some insecurity at the scope and pace of change in the world," he said. "There are so many people in this country...
...case, there seemed to be a strong current of national melancholy seeking to express itself. The economy was way up, the deficit skinny, unemployment and interest rates down; so it would be hard to argue that melancholy was linked to money. But the fin de siecle came at the same time as the "fin" of other things. An odd loss attended winning the cold war, that of a scary enemy (the effort to inflate Saddam Hussein to that stature was seen as nonsense). There was the apparent end of ideology as the two main political parties settled on common...
...would like to express my disappointment with The Crimson's coverage of the women's track and field meet held two weekends ago at the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Center. Not only did The Crimson neglect to cover the meet in Monday's sports section, but the coverage the meet received in the Dec. 9 paper is both cursory and wrong...
...makeunder. It's not just that Carol's hair is dark and lifelessly curly; work and worry have lent her an almost cadaverous pallor. In years of devotion to her son, she has forgotten the body language of adult affection. When a doctor speaks to her kindly, she can express her gratitude only by clumsily hugging his face. But she's great at crying: in one scene, her tears squirt perfectly down both cheeks, like the soap mechanism on windshield wipers...
...would help you in trying to take in this news with some equanimity, I'd be happy to point out that "teen millions" is a rather soothing way to express these prices, given our association of "teen" with the familiar world of dirty sneakers and orthodonture. It's necessary now, though, to let you know that anyone laying down, say, $14.5 million in cash for an apartment in an A+ building has to prove to the building's board that he has a net worth at least 10 times that amount...