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Defenders of the current system argue, with some merit, that permitting people to sue insurers would lead to a flood of litigation, enrich lawyers, raise the cost of coverage and leave complex and emotional medical decisions to a patchwork of courts and juries. Expanding a patient's right to sue "would probably be the most inflationary change in the history of health care," says David Simon, Aetna's chief legal officer. "You'd be telling people, 'Go sue like crazy. Make $89 million verdicts routine...
Several characters unite when escapism shows its face in "Scraps." Anna Medvedovsky '99 plays the Patchwork Girl of Oz, an unhappy housewife who escapes mundanity by dressing up like her favorite character from the Oz books, while Chris Sahm '01 plays an old woman who'd like nothing better than to live among the clean peaceful plastic in her favorite McDonald...
...desperate) enough to be mildly amusing. Still, it's the sort of scene that you know has been done before--a feeling we seem to get often; a class nerd gets shoved into a locker, carollers disperse before an advancing runaway sleigh, the mistletoe scene, etc. It's a patchwork of cliched moments from other movies or sitcoms--all stapled together into a disjointed Christmas special with absolutely no flow...
DIED. DOROTHY DONEGAN, 76, exuberant jazz pianist; reportedly of colon cancer; in Los Angeles. A flamboyant performer, Donegan was known as much for her jokes and gyrations as for her music (a patchwork of swing, pop, ragtime, boogie-woogie and classical...
Which is never, it must be added, seriously in doubt. The plot of A Patchwork Planet provides little suspense but--Tyler's trademark--many occasions for touching human details. The best of them involve Barnaby's sympathetic observations about the aging people who depend on his services. "I never counted my clients as friends--not even the ones I liked," he says. "Clients could up and die on you." So they do, and Barnaby mourns them. One of his favorites, Mrs. Alford, goes suddenly, and relatives show Barnaby the quilt with a Planet Earth design that she had hastily finished...