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...Long Beach, new residents in family practice assume fabricated maladies and check into the hospital for an overnight stay -- incognito. The staff treats them as they would any other patient, even sending them a bill. The entire entering class of medical students at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., are issued bedpans and told to use them. They spend part of the first day of school as hobbled patients. A few male students are even subjected to an indignity familiar to women: waiting in the stirrups for a doctor to arrive...
...just call it pragmatic. As the economy sputters and fears grow that U.S. technological prowess is fading, the President and his advisers seem to have undergone an overnight conversion that was actually about a year in the making. The shift has an unmistakable back-to-the-future quality about it. During Bush's first two years in office, his aides sheltered the free-market flame by batting away several internal proposals to put federal money on the line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties...
Director Barry Levinson, who has been known to place a sentimental scrim over the past, avoids the temptation here. He envisions old-time Hollywood as sleek, hard and distracted by its own overnight success. The whole town acts like an overhandsome star -- rather like Bugsy's friend George Raft (whom Joe Mantegna plays a little too kindly in the film) -- a dumb guy who thinks his prosperity proves that he's smart...
...otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion...
...career, announced that he had been infected by the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS and would "have to retire from the Lakers today." Although he has as yet no symptoms of AIDS, the man who had defied gravity, and belief, for so long would suddenly, overnight, vanish from the court. "I'm going to miss playing," said Johnson, dry-eyed and dignified as ever, "but my life is going to go on. I'm going to go on a happy...