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...doubts that managed competition will cure what ails the insurers. The idea, insofar as anyone can comprehend it, is to create a new layer of bureaucracy -- health-insurance-purchasing cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease...
...very odd show. Largely composed of loans from the Greek government, it combines a number of profound, exquisite and completely irreplaceable works of art, which wiser owners would not have exposed to the risks of travel, with an utter shallowness of argument about their social and ritual meanings. Insofar as an exhibition can assemble great sculpture and have practically no scholarly value, this one does...
...aging "Actors" (Phil Munger and John Morton), also help develop the plot, though they follow the narrator's directions only insofar as it promotes their own washed-up acting careers. With booming voices and theatrical flair, Munger and Morton easily steal the show. Their incredibly comical scenes provide reason enough to see the production...
...Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...
This perception runs contrary to AAA's stated intention to represent all Asian-Americans. Indeed, insofar as the administration recognizes AAA as the major Asian organization on campus and gives it special privileges (such as a permanent seat on the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee), AAA has an obligation to represent all Asian-Americans. In light of the "Yellow Power" poster, I question AAA's ability...