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Does Equus hold up? It is not - never was - a great play, but it's a terrific piece of theater. On one level, it's a straightforward mystery, not whodunit but why; on another, a battle of wits between psychiatrist and patient. But it doesn't take long to ferret out Shaffer's sometimes overexplicit theme - that old chestnut about the "insane" being more authentically alive than those of us leading ordered, conformist, "normal" lives. "The boy has created out of his drab existence a passion more ferocious than any I have known in any second of my life," says...
...Galston and Kamarck argue that the next President should start simple and build gradually on success, although they do acknowledge, "When an ambivalent public is demanding large changes even as it mistrusts government as the agent of change, patient incrementalism can convey the impression of weakness and lack of purpose...
...that Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 is trying to close the gap between how much hospitals spend and how much the state reimburses. As one of the 10 largest health systems in the state, the Health Alliance currently receives over 700,000 patient visits a year—and that number is expected to increase in coming years. Representatives at the state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services were not available for comment...
...others in the Boston area, will continue to provide on-site training for third-year Medical School students. The clerkship—which receives much of its financial support from the Medical School—is a redesign of the traditional medical curriculum with an emphasis on patient care...
...doubt the most popular figure in China's top leadership: a graying, grandfatherly standout in a crowd of wooden faces that rarely crack a smile, much less choke up on national television as Wen did after the May earthquake in Sichuan province. But this week, even the ever patient Wen must be wishing that someone else could take up his role as Beijing's mollifier in chief. On Sept. 22, the 62-year-old said he felt "extremely guilty" about the poisoned milk products that have killed four babies and sickened tens of thousands, adding, "I sincerely apologize...