Word: federation
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That sounds to some critics like precertification by another name. "It can't be assumed these guys are behaving in the interest [of patients]," says Judith Feder, a health-policy expert at Georgetown University. Maybe not, but last week's decision demonstrated that even self-interest can start an HMO down the right path...
Another alternative surprise is Chris Cornell, former front man for Soundgarden. He, along with the artist Eleven, delivers a poignant rendition of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" in Old English. One of the producers, Linda Feder, writes that Cornell "felt very strongly about wanting to do a traditional song, a classical piece, something that might turn young people onto classical music." Who would have thought the same guy who helped pioneer Seattle grunge could sing so magnificently...
...which runs the lives of Welles and Hearst on parallel tracks until they collide in 1941, is a two-hour tornado of a documentary, with rare clips of the 1936 Macbeth, some quaint home movies of Hearst's costume parties, reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like a wiser Winchell. "Appetite drove [Welles]," he rasps. "Applause wasn't enough. He wanted amazement...
Living behind the judge's garden is Karin, played by Frederique Feder. She works for a personalized weather service, and has a boyfriend named Auguste, played by lean-Pierre Lorit...
...computers can riffle through reams of data and pinpoint patterns of repetition the naked eye might never notice. But what do these patterns signify? Intentional theft? Random clusters of words attracted to each other by grammar or syntax? Something in between? Interestingly enough, some historians who received the Stewart-Feder report decided it exonerated Oates of any suspicion of plagiarism, since the examples showed how much the majority of his writing differed from his presumed sources...