Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason why the Clinton approach seemed to be coming apart last week. But another is that the President's plan hangs on a string of interlocking parts: if one piece is removed in the legislative process, the rest of the mechanisms are quickly overloaded and bound to fail. For example, Clinton aims to pay for universal coverage in part by restraining health-care inflation through premium caps. If he backs away from caps, as he did last week, though, controlling inflation will be harder. So would be paying for universal coverage...
...suitable pulchritudinous actors in just about every scene. Peter Ngor's camera creates a luscious surface of vivid colors and careful compositions that does full justice to Raymond Lee's sets and art direction. However, the film's visual beauty and the amusing acrobatics in some of the scenes fail to distract one from the cruelty of the era the movie depicts. There is an extraordinarily disturbing scene where the prodigiously endowed and sadistic Kuen rapes and beats his wife. Some of the sex scenes are so over the top that one begins to think that this is an erotic...
...Unfortunately, if the vote were taken todaythe bill would fail," Wineke said. "This is thekind of bill that if everyone could vote secretly,it would pass...
...their ranting and raving about the policy they liken themselves to Jews being persecuted by Hitler. What they fail to realize is that instead of writing a whining letter to The Crimson, all they had to do was find out how the problem might be solved: ;last year, the students proposed to Dean Nathans and Dean Young a system they liked better, and after a meeting of proctors it was adopted, They also assume that Linda Boland is the evil mastermind behind this plot, when in reality the current system was originally created and approved...
...Tokio, obscenity--as beauty--is ultimately an instrument of social good. "All these geniuses who believe in our moral obligation to save the world as Harvard students post only malevolent comments on this board and fail to bless the poor masses with the beauty of their poetry," Rose raves. "Oh poop...