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...remember going out to the scene of a big fire fight?40 to 50 bodies, horribly mutilated, that had been dragged into this field. My job was to take pictures of them. The pictures would be put on leaflets that would be dropped wherever the Army expected an enemy outfit was hiding. It was a gruesome sight, like witnessing a plane crash. It's still in the back of my mind?walking amid heads blown off, stomachs blown open, all of it smelling to high heaven...
This summer a new outfit called MedUnite will try to close the loop. Formed by large insurers, including Aetna, Cigna and Oxford, that didn't like the idea of WebMD coming between them and their core customers, MedUnite will try to offer intelligent connectivity to doctors and HMOs in order to speed claims, referrals and eligibility checks--and to cut costs. "Who better to work out the relationship with HMOs than the HMOs themselves?" asks Dave Cox, MedUnite...
...Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood and Dan Miller), the boyband of ABC-TV’s “Making the Band” infamy, arrived in Bean-Town, and this city would never be the same. Never before has this historical center of democracy borne witness to a musical outfit so devoid of singing ability, good looks, humility or even charm...
...doors slammed behind him in 1997, new investors bought the humiliated and financially ruined OM. Despite invest-ments of $125 million since - mostly on new talent - OM stands at the brink of relegation and fans are furious. In desperation, the new owners turned to Tapie to save his old outfit, giving him control of team management and a reported stake in the club. Can political rehabilitation be far away...
...gleam with the silver-framed pageant of their photogenic tribal progress. Ronald Reagan's weight room in the White House seemed wistfully egotistical, decorated on the theme of himself, with movie posters of himself and the TIME Man of the Year cover illustration of himself. Richard Nixon wanted to outfit his White House guard in elaborate Graustarkian uniforms, a tinhorn spectacle of power, but was embarrassed out of the idea. Patton, too, was a great one for designing gaudy special uniforms for himself and his troops. George C. Scott's "Patton" was Nixon's favorite movie. If Nixon could have...