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This flurry of achievement and attention is peaking with the publication last week of Price's most distinctive and haunting work, an account of his affliction and renewal titled A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing. Reviewers are being even more generous than usual, and TV talk masters Larry King, Charlie Rose and Oprah Winfrey are beckoning. Price wrote the book, he says, because when he was hospitalized and searching for hope, "I couldn't find anything like it. There were stories from wives, from children, but no stories from survivors. I wanted to tell how one person...
Barylski wrote in his letter to staffers that "Harvard is being extremely generous in this matter and we must give them our fullest cooperation if we are to be allowed to continue broadcasting until Commencement...
...dream. The reality of reality always wins in the end. Franklin Roosevelt, possibly the greatest illusionist and spin master in presidential history (better even than Ronald Reagan), never lost sight of the reality of the reality of the world, which he kept in the foreground of his generous, sane mind...
...Government should do to control costs and extend health coverage to the uninsured but also at what it should stop doing. Their most notable suggestion: Washington might limit the tax exemption for employer-purchased health insurance, which costs the Treasury $74 billion a year and mainly works to subsidize generous health plans for the best-paid Americans. The exemption, they argued, fuels overspending on health care and helps drive the cost of insurance beyond the reach of many low-income workers and small businesses. "Almost everyone agreed," says a senior White House official, "that it would be good policy...
...despite the popularity of three strikes, the game of political one-up-manship has already started. In some states, three strikes is being view as too generous to criminals...