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Around the country, St. Ignatius' plight has become a familiar one. For rural hospitals, dwindling federal money is often far more damaging than it is for more visible inner-city counterparts. Of the more than 300 U.S. hospitals that have been forced to close since 1983, about half have been in rural areas. The American Hospital Association estimates that nearly 70% of those still in business are financially ailing. Though Washington recently announced new Medicare reimbursement policies that will boost payments for patients who incur exceptionally high costs, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported last month that the crisis...
...firing muskets loaded with rusty nails into each other's faces, they were engaged in a competitive warmth-out -- Michael Dukakis trying furiously to grin, with meager results; Bush's grin wandering, with random abundance, all over his face and off into the air. Given his wrinkles (and his plight), Lloyd Bentsen's grin was hard to distinguish from a wince. Off to the side, Dan Quayle was giving high school students his version of the Stephen Sondheim lyric "Lovely is the one thing...
...underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm of dental patients, one can almost hear their collective lament: "What has America done as a nation to deserve an election like this...
...culture of the Khazars. A fictional tribe created by Pavic, the Khazars flourished in Asia Minor until around the eighth century A.D., when, upon conversion to one of the three major religions, their nation and culture disappeared from the face of the earth. In Pavic's hands, the plight of the Khazars in the eighth century becomes a parable for the Middle East of today...
...desperate as life is in Port-au-Prince's slums, a truer picture of Haiti's plight emerges in the countryside, where some 75% of the country's 6.3 million people live. Land is both the hope of these peasants and the yoke that dooms them to poverty. Over the years, land parcels have shrunk to handkerchief size through repeated division among descendants and illegal seizures by landowners. Even the practice of voodoo has had an effect: some peasants have been forced to sell their land to pay for elaborate religious rituals for dead relatives...