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...second merger in less than a month involving Harvard teaching hospitals was announced this week when Mount Auburn Hospital agreed to join a merger between Beth Israel and Deaconess Hospitals...
Buchanan is wooing this group too, but with a message that is pitched not at the wealthy but at the working class. At a rally in South Carolina he nearly took the paint off the walls with his mount-'em-up speech. He promises not what he will do as President, but what "we" will do--shut down the border, get out of world organizations, impose tariffs. The result is a subtle but powerful co-opt of the listener. Dole, by comparison, still talks about that guy Bob Dole, as if he were just a stand-in for the real...
From a makeshift stage before the Minuteman, Buchanan--who has used Mount Rushmore, the OK Corral and the Citadel as backdrops to his populist campaign--invoked the names of George Washington and other colonial heroes in railing against free-trade deals and the deployment of U.S. troops under United Nations' command...
...trade, as on other points, of course, Buchanan often appeals less to economic logic than to nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...
King, who died February 8 in Mount Auburn Hospital after complications resulting from an acute pancreatic attack, was 55 years...