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Sitting beside Hillary Clinton at a meeting on Capitol Hill two summers ago, Jennifer Bush cut a heartbreaking figure. The seven-year-old Coral Springs, Florida, girl with big eyes and a perky red bow atop her little Dutch-boy coif seemed a perfect poster child for the Administration's health-care-reform plan. Chronically ill almost from birth, Jennifer had already endured nearly 200 hospitalizations and 40 operations, and her $2 million-plus medical bill had exhausted the family's health-insurance benefits. Not surprisingly, Jennifer became a media darling, appearing on the Today show and on the front...
...speaker subcommittee put poster boards in the dining halls to get suggestions," Cahn said. "The gist was that students wanted someone who was not a politician, not an academic, someone entertaining and yet quasi-intellectual...
...Reid was seized upon and transformed into a kind of modern morality tale of parents looking for meaning and morning shows searching for novelty. On talk radio and in coffee shops, her soaring spirit and tragic plunge were the subjects of outrage and debate. Overnight she became the poster child of parental and media exploitation, of an ethos that granted children too much freedom rather than too little, of a parental drive not content to let children be children. Many wondered whether the freedom to pursue personal identity had been pushed...
...dismayed yesterday to observe the disgraceful nonchalance with which some passerby in the Science Center gave the posters commemorating the Holocaust nothing more than a cursory glance. "I already know enough about the Holocaust," they seemed to say. (As if the ignominy of the Holocaust could conceivably be overstated!) I couldn't help marvelling at some of the expressionless faces of the passersby that walked on, unmoved by the nameless faces peering out at their from behind the electrified barbed wire. There was tremendous irony in the quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read...
...poster-ripping, politicking Rasputin portrayed by the Crimson during the last two weeks bears little resemblance to the Rudd Coffey we know and respect...