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...poor. It is a lawless dystopia, plagued by rapacity and violence: "In eastern India, bauxite and iron-ore mining is destroying whole ecosystems, turning fertile land into desert," she writes in the introduction. And in an essay, about the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat: "Women were stripped, gang-raped; parents were bludgeoned to death in front of their children." The writing is extremely provocative - corporations are marauders, politicians are fascists who commit genocide - and yet it is always gorgeously wrought. Her pitch-perfect prose is the one thing that fans of her famous novel, The God of Small Things...
More startling is the misguided attempt to move past the violence and push for a bipartisan health-care bill: the misdeeds and misfires of the so-called “Gang of Six.” Although an effort at bipartisanship is both necessary and appropriate, the Gang of Six is less likely to craft consensus than hamstring effective reform...
...gang the center of debate? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there’s more agreement about health-care reform in Washington than disagreement. Four congressional committees have already agreed on core tenets: community ratings, expansion of Medicaid coverage, a health-care exchange, subsidies for low-income citizens, incentive for employers, and an end to underwriting on pre-existing conditions. Generally, more divisions have been bridged than broadened...
Lampoon: 1. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. 2. Gang of emaciated white males who amuse themselves writing penis jokes and starting fires inside their castle. 3. Campus virgin support center...
...long innings and was a factor in Washington for nearly 50 years, first as a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and then as a columnist with Rowland Evans. When Evans died, he carried on alone. He was a pioneer in the pundit business, inventing Capital Gang on CNN, which spawned plenty of copycats. He could be a grouch on camera, but in private he was far kinder than his television persona. He was also the hardest-working man in show biz, just in terms of output - columns, newsletters and TV shows. Nearly every day of the past year...