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...Everyone knows that health care will be the issue that the President cashes in all his chips for. Democrats won't stray unless they have great reason to. But we still don't know how health-care reform will be paid for, and we're not just going to rubber-stamp the deal." Republicans, like the Democrats, are getting an earful from their constituents about the high costs, insecurity and gaps in coverage of the present jerry-built nonsystem. Some will try to find reasons to vote for reform, and even those who are inclined to oppose it are leery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Ready for the Cure? | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

Keith, the redhead, jiggles a red pencil between two fingers so it looks like it is made of rubber. Khalilah spreads the Boston Herald on her desk...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

Until Harvard reconsiders its ties to the ART and renegotiates the latter's parasitic hold on the Loeb Drama Center, and until the standing committee ceases to be a rubber stamp for Brustein's wishes, undergraduates and their supporters will have little recourse to prevent Symonds from leaving his current post. And although his successor may well prove a champion of student theater, a more permanent solution is necessary. The survival of undergraduate theater should not rest upon the whims of a professional theater company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Offer Him a Job | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...a.k.a. Jedi Master Miracle Man, took the microphone at the end of "Funkmove" and announced the entrance of the bearer of a "sublime message to the people," the "Missionary Monk Messiah." To no one's surprise, the "Monk" turned out to be none other than Norcott. Famed for his rubber wranglings with the Harvard Police over a piece of poultry with sentimental value, the Chicken Man was most definitely a Funky Chicken Man on this particular night...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: FUNK | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

Williams impressed his rank and file with his decisive response in halting a miniriot last December in South Central. The chief immediately dispatched 300 | officers in riot gear to the scene, where they quelled the melee with rubber bullets. "At least he grabbed the bull by the horns," commented a 27-year officer at his retirement party. Yet the police force suffers from poor morale, and most officers still chafe at Williams' attitude that the police are public servants rather than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unhealed Wounds | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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