Word: iras
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...which makes for a conundrum. How do you silence someone who is presumably a star tenor in your own choir? The trick, apparently, is to publicly praise the renegade for his perfect pitch -- then start a whisper campaign that he sings off-key. Last Wednesday, White House health guru Ira Magaziner praised Cooper's plan repeatedly during a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The next day, Clinton told TIME that his Administration's much-ballyhooed dispute with Cooper "has been thrown out of proportion. I think there can be a deal there...
...Crimson has a policy against runningadvertisements that are false or promote hatred,"said Ira E. Stoll, president of The Crimson. "Idon't think we serve the public interest byhelping them spread a hateful message...
...from the Cooper-Breaux health-care plan, the chief rival to the Clinton plan in Congress. With this in mind, Clinton will speak at the DLC's annual conference on Friday. It may be a tough sell: DLC president Al From has privately criticized the Clinton plan and said Ira Magaziner, the White Houses health guru, has a "Rasputin-like hold" on the President and Mrs. Clinton...
...several exact copies of the U.S. President are found dead and no one is certain whether a clone or the real McCoy sits in the Oval Office. In Nancy Freedman's 1973 book Joshua, Son of None, the clone is a real President, John F. Kennedy. And, Ira Levin's 1976 novel (later a movie), The Boys from Brazil, imagines neo-Nazis cloning a batch of Hitlers; luckily the conspirators' failure to duplicate precisely the real Hitler's upbringing leaves the ersatz Fuhrers imperfectly evil...
Watching Deathtrap at the Loeb Experimental Theater is like walking through a House of Mirrors at a local country fair. Both are chock full of unexpected twists, false realities and good cheap thrills. Written by Ira Levin (author Rosemary's Baby, Sliver), this play about a play about a play mercilessly examines the question of whether it is life that imitates art or vice-versa...