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...physician Concord Hillside Medical Associates in a Boston suburb was bought out by the Lahey Hitchcock network earlier this month. But Emerson Hospital in Concord, where the Hillside group sends many of its patients, is simultaneously negotiating to join the rival Partners network. "The situation is filled with fault lines and tensions,'' says Geoffrey Cole, president of Emerson. Cole doesn't want "to start a nuclear war,'' observes Zane. "But he's going to have a nuclear war either...
...book that even the tendency to blame others gets blamed on others. Thus the victim mentality, which encourages people to blame their personal failings on "society," is largely the work of "the countercultural left." A question arises: Does the complicity of the counterculture in this tendency mean that faulting your social environment for your faults isn't really your fault? If so, that's good news for Gingrich. Asked on TV a few months ago about his use of marijuana during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that he had been "alive and in graduate school...
Gingrich's usual suspects--the bureaucrats, the elites, the counterculture--are, of course, bound by a common trait: none is exactly a central pillar of his constituency. Indeed, a remarkable feature of America's problems, as analyzed in Gingrich's book, is that they are never the fault of Republicans. Even the slightest misdemeanor, if committed by a Republican, turns out to originate in some external cause. For example, Gingrich once saw some Republicans in Congress "grandstand for the news media." (Imagine that!) But it turns out they had been egged on by "liberals in the Washington press corps...
Much of the fault of The Language of Life lies with Moyers' decision to "go soft"--to play the genial, wide-eyed interviewer who encounters a revelation at every turn. He's fond of faux-naif questions (at least one hopes the faux is genuine) such as, "So politics is not only a matter of revolution?" or "Mysticism wasn't meant to be public, was it?" The result is a series of earnest one-on-one interviews that promote just those traits the contemporary poetry scene least needs to encourage: its solemn exhibitionism, its squishy mysticism, its self-absorption...
...anyone I had met before. I thought that I was entering Harvard with the same perspective I would have when I left. But then I arrived on campus and the way I thought about myself and everything else in my life began to shift beneath the surface, exposing a fault line I never knew existed...