Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams: They approved our idea for the three shows: Lend Me a Tenor, Othello and Slavs...
...country needs, at certain moments, to come together around an idea that makes it proud of itself," said President Jacques Chirac at Tuesday's Bastille Day celebration. He was referring not to 1789's storming of the Bastille, but to last Sunday's storming of the Brazilian goal by France's World Cup soccer heroes, which brought 3 million people onto the streets of Paris. "This is the biggest thing that's happened since the liberation of Paris in 1944," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "It has taken a nation that has been down in the dumps...
...literal sense he is. He was thrown from a horse last month, fracturing his neck. (No, he was not paralyzed or treated by managed care.) The painful healing process has given him a lot of time to consider how disappointed he is with the system he helped create. "The idea was to have health-care organizations compete on price and quality," Ellwood says. "The form it took, driven by employers, is competition on price alone...
...with less than two months of lawmaking left before Congress adjourns to run for re-election, there is also plenty to fight about. Democrats are firm that patients be allowed to sue their health plans, an idea that Republicans and their business constituents find heretical. The House Republican bill contains a few land mines of its own, such as medical savings accounts (a risky experiment, Democrats say, and a sop to G.O.P. campaign contributors) and limits on malpractice awards (which the Democrats and their trial-lawyer allies warn would prevent the injured from recovering what they are due). Says Republican...
...outrun emus. Even those who don't like animals--in fact, especially those who dislike animals--can enjoy Emergency Vets, a cinema-verite take on a Denver veterinary office. Rover and his owner dealing with a run-over paw make great TV. And perhaps the network's cleverest idea of all is The Pet Shop, a talk show with pet jokes in the monologue, pet skits and celebrities who are interviewed with their pets. Animal Planet does feature too much new Lassie and Flipper, but the rest of the original programming demonstrates how broadly appealing a special-interest channel...