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...disburses a biennial budget of $1.7 billion on programs ranging from malaria inoculations to AIDS prevention. Nakajima, his critics charge, has run it in an autocratic manner, but Japan made his reappointment a matter of national pride and applied inordinate pressure to secure it. In May, Nakajima must still win approval, usually pro forma, from the organization's 168-nation assembly...
...present time, we have rationing ofhealth care in the United States. Some people arerationed out by price," Fein said. "SenatorKennedy's proposal would distribute the availablecare in a much more equitable manner...
...Clinton's people are studying all manner of nasty moves they had hoped to avoid: raising gasoline taxes; limiting mortgage-interest deductions, perhaps to $20,000 a year; further restricting itemized deductions for upper- income taxpayers; taxing more of the Social Security benefits of high- income pensioners. Any one of these would enrage politically powerful groups, but efforts to ease the pain -- rebating gasoline taxes to lower- and middle-income people, for example -- would soften any bite taken out of the deficit. "We aren't close ((to agreement)) yet," says an adviser. "Will we be there in three weeks? Maybe...
...friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything but traditional. The Crying Game asks: Do we ever know...
...wonderfully imaginative and hysterically funny. But for all its surreal humor, it never loses sight of the drama. The Revenger's Tragedy is a morality play, showing a society ruin itself through its own appetite for destruction. Had he tried to portray that moral void in a straightforward manner, Ross would have failed. The bloodthirstiness of the story is too much for the modern audience. Instead, somewhere in the final scene--with the chandelier spinning, Luxurioso gorging himself on peas and dancers in surgical robes gyrating to the tune of "Supermodel"--Ross's grisly humor gels to express perfectly that...