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...avoid these grim alternatives, the wonks on my side have proposed schemes that would make health insurance a portable benefit. Individuals, instead of employers, would buy health insurance and would receive the tax benefits for doing so. My wonks claim that their system would act as a brake on costs, since insurers would have to deal with consumers directly. The poor would be treated as they are now, through Medicaid, or with means-tested tax credits...
Yuletide at the movies is often grim; Sophie's Choice, Scarface, Ironweed, Hoffa and most of Oliver Stone's psychodramas were December releases. The reason is coincidence: Christmas Day also marks the start of the last eligible week for the year's Oscar nominees to be released, and that's the cue for superserioso films. So audiences in search of vigorously vacant entertainment this holiday season will find Mrs. Doubtfire and not much else. The rest is state torture, mortal prejudice, mass death. Instead of tidings of joy, Hollywood offers the writhings...
Participants first grappled over the causes of Cuba's grim economic situation. Cuba's woes are "not the result of United States policy," said Richard A. Nuccio of the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. "[They are] the result of Cuban policies...
...aren't Cubans in the streets demanding the downfall of Castro and communism? Last week the State Department called Cuba's future grim, "a prolonged, slow decline waiting for a catastrophe." In a still-classified warning to President Clinton in August, the CIA predicted that "tensions and uncertainties are so acute that significant miscalculations by Castro, a deterioration of his health, or plotting in the military could provoke regime- threatening instability at virtually any time." The CIA report sketches out "serious instability" and "the risk of a bloodbath...
...fortunate to be free of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Since the disease emerged in Nairobi in the early 1980s, the sexually transmitted virus has infected 90% of the city's lower-class prostitutes; but somehow Munyiva, 42, has avoided the scourge during her 13 years in that grim line of work. "Perhaps God knows that if he takes me away, my children would suffer," she says...