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...proponents of an outdated individualism, but it is also fractured by the surge toward particularism in what was once to be the great amalgamation of innumerable peoples and cultures. Empathy has been lost between these two mutually enforcing powers, and the result has been a growing indifference to the plight of the millions who genuinely suffer in this country...
...ugly core to the American health care crisis: There are too many problems--administrative waste, lack of preventive care, misapplied technology--and they all seem to cause each other, creating a viscious uncontrollable cycle. But the current discussion of health care difficulties focuses on two primary problems: the plight of the uninsured and the skyrocketing cost of medical insurance...
...Stein persuasively accuses Peltz of having skewered his fellow shareholders.) Now 49, and married to a former Ford model, he owns an $18 million Palm Beach estate, a 106-acre, 22-room Westchester summer place and, I was told by his public-relations chief, is deeply concerned with the plight of the homeless...
...fact that black women's complaints about sexist behavior are taken even less seriously than white women's. Held down by racism and the sexism of both black and white males, black females are one of society's most oppressed groups. Yet their attempts to call attention to their plight routinely provoke storms of angry denial of the legitimacy of their complaints. An example: the denunciations that were heaped on Alice Walker for her novel The Color Purple and the film that was based on it. Some critics falsely charged that Walker was a lesbian who hated black men because...
...last week the New York State health department decided to put Bergalis' plight into perspective. She is but one of 1 million HIV-infected Americans and one of only five ever to have been infected by a health-care worker -- all five by the same dentist. These facts, state health officials concluded, did not merit what they saw as a witch hunt to track down and expose every health- care worker who carries the deadly virus...