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...CARLO MARIA MARTINI, 66, Italy...
Minuses: Lacks Martini's high profile...
...deductibility debate will not be decided by facts and revenues, for at its core are the more peppery issues of politics and fairness that have long made the "three-martini lunch" a hot topic. "A businessman often needs a congenial atmosphere away from the office in which to make his or her pitch," points out Jerry Berns, the 86-year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct...
...taxes rise, and for a typical family, the energy tax would range from $10 to $17 a month. Class resentment had been simmering long enough to ensure that there would be few voices in Congress willing to come to the defense of millionaires, deductible golf-club memberships and three-martini lunches. Any particular spending cut, on the other hand, was guaranteed to add another obstacle in Congress. "As a political matter," said a Clinton aide, "it's easier to put the burden of deficit reduction on rich people generally, rather than taking on all the special interests at once...
...everyone accepts Martini's assessment -- or at least the accreditation council's action. "We can't correct all of the problems in the distribution of health care by putting a quota on medical education," says Dr. J. Lee Dockery, executive vice president of the American Board of Medical Specialties. A better way to boost the number of primary-care physicians, he argues, is to provide them with more incentives...