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There is a name for writers who claim privileged access to the inner workings of people they describe. The name is novelist. And it is impossible to read the released portion of McGinniss's book without feeling set adrift in a muddled and decidedly fictional realm. The introductory chunk purports to follow Ted Kennedy from the assassination of his brother John, on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, through the President's funeral and burial the following Monday. The events of these four days were exhaustively rehearsed in William Manchester's The Death of a President (1967); McGinniss acknowledges his indebtedness...
Unfortunately, a muddy sound system makes it difficult to hear the messages left on Janie's answering machine. The answering machine monologues make up a substantial portion of the talking in the play and serve to frame many of the scenes, and someone should have noticed before this play went up that the messages cannot be heard clearly by the audience...
...patients, the reforms may mean a more restricted choice of doctors, or else paying a greater portion of the bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting...
...heart of the scandal stands the outfit that financed a large portion of it: the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
Eventually the renovations and construction will encompass much of what Parsons calls the "FAS are," with the Science Center and Memorial Hall occupying the central, focal portion...