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Baitz's awareness of the clash between cash and conscience is hardly novel; ! and his main target, infant formula, has been pilloried for more than a decade. What makes Three Hotels so memorable, in an impeccable production, is Baitz's ability to render people specific and real. He savors the businessman's skill at infighting and pride in the art of firing failed subordinates even as the character edges toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each...
...grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional Day of the Dead, hoping his wife...
...system produces lustrous mini-campuses in the most fortunate suburbs, scuffed and gloomy warehouses in the ghettos and maximum insecurity almost everywhere. Poorer districts are so desperate that 41 states have faced lawsuits challenging the statewide school finance formula, all with the goal of getting courts to compel legislatures to adopt a more equitable sharing of tax revenues. Under court pressure, Kentucky has developed a package of taxes to help fund education. In May Texas voters will be asked to approve a redistribution of property taxes...
...Clinton administration should at the very least offer the Oregon plan to all Americans below the poverty line, replacing the less-inclusive Medicaid. It should also use its pay-or-play formula to require businesses to pay a tax for employees who wind up in the rationing system or to provide their own coverage that meets federal standards...
...formula is fairly simple: injuries, the departure of eight key players (most of them seniors) and a growing discontent with third-year Head Coach Gordon Graham...