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...great industrial consolidations of the Rockefellers and Harrimans a century ago were simpleminded checkers games by comparison to this 3-D chess match. Tracking the corporate cross-purposes and potential conflicts of interest makes the brain hurt. Paramount's Davis, surely a lame duck no matter who wins, wants Sumner Redstone's Viacom to become his proprietor, but both will be millions richer even if Diller and Malone prevail. Because Malone controls a quarter of the stock in Turner Broadcasting, mellowing Ted Turner (he told someone recently he's "a lot less hungry" than certain other moguls) was persuaded last...
Malpractice reform would help, but the Administration's new proposals are essentially lame since Clinton has refused to adopt a California-style cap on awards for pain and suffering. On the other hand, Clinton's plan to extend at- home and nursing-home benefits will lower costs. As the First Lady points out, Medicare does not pick up those tabs now, "so that doctors, as favors to families, keep people in hospitals...
...Lame spin by State convinces no one he was Mideast player...
There is no choice in behavior; what we think of as morality depends merely on correctly timed exposure to the right stimuli. TV becomes the latest in a litany of lame excuses for sociopathic behavior...
These desperate, obsessively repeated evocations of a fouled world are brutally convincing. But they are merely grotesque, shifting stage sets, not the novel's action. And the failing of Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough...