Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of a protected personal realm is beginning to seem quaint and sepia toned, even people who don't expect government investigators on their doorstep sense that Starr has breached more than just the President's tattered defenses. By its very example, his investigation furthers a truly unwholesome idea: that relations between consenting adults--even juvenile, unappetizing and wrongful ones--can be criminalized. All you have to do is corner the people involved, question them under oath and make them squirm...
...idea of the new rule--that the most gravely ill should be first in line for scarce medical resources--sounds like the essence of fairness. Yet the new organ-allocation system has ignited one of the most bitter and divisive controversies to hit U.S. medicine in decades. Hospital officials are charging one another with dishonesty and greed. Old friends have become enemies. Says Mayo Clinic health-policy analyst Roger Evans: "It's shocking. There is so much personal animosity, it's almost hatred, and it will only deteriorate over time...
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Even a good idea, of course, must make one or two stops on its way from Bali to prime time. A few months after his honeymoon, Abrams was eating dinner with Reeves, an old friend. Both 32 and both from Los Angeles, they had met when they were 13 and already making student films. During the meal, Abrams told Reeves of his idea about a girl who disastrously moves across the country to go to college. At first the two thought the story would work as a movie. "But every version seemed stupid," says Abrams. "We realized the thing that...
Fashions come and go in pop and classical music alike, but never has the same idea hit both ends of the street at the same time the way jazz did in the first quarter of this century. Unlike such other seismic events as rock 'n' roll (downtown) and atonality (up), jazz contained a bit of everything: the tingle and immediacy of pop but also the sophisticated harmonies of classical and the authenticity and rootedness of folk...