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...market product. But the real buyers are the government and health-insurance middlemen. American health care comprises an elaborate structure. Backstage, courageous nurses and ethical physicians keep things from falling apart. Reforming America's most powerful cartel requires enormous political courage. Wallowing with Kenneth Starr is safer. THOMAS A. MCGOFF Moscow...
...author shrewdly uses the dilemmas of leadership as counterpoint to three narratives of Bostonians who suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing...
...women interest the author most: Alice McGoff, with a fierce sense of pride and devotion; Rachel Twymon, afflicted with lupus, passionately determined to work her way up from welfare; Joan Diver, devoted to self-denial and sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by busing. Cassandra Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease...
...Boston's struggle with the law, it can be appraised as a model of thoroughness and balance. Lukas well knows Emerson's dictum that there is properly no history, only biography. When Colin Diver chases a mugger who battered a black woman outside his front door, when Alice McGoff debates with herself whether she can respect a Catholic priest who is a "pro-buser," when Rachel Twymon's sister hears rocks smash through her windows night after night, the story is larger than three families, and larger than Boston. As a narrative of people's repeated losses of faith, above...
...floor higher, Ford told Barrett and John Marsh, a former aide in the Ford White House, about his meeting with Reagan. He felt flattered, honored-and pressured. He and Betty joined two dozen other friends on the yacht Global Star, owned by John McGoff, a Michigan newspaper publisher. Among the guests was Alan Greenspan, a Ford friend and his chief economic adviser in the White House...