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...support of large insurance companies, hospitals, unions and a fearful middle class. Remarkably, however, his early vision of paying for reform mostly by controlling costs and reducing paperwork remains the proposal's central feature. This is the inside story of Clinton's revolutionary plan, a wonky, made-from-scratch idea that endured despite the efforts of nearly everyone, including its own creators, to second-guess it to death...
...Scratch that. I already remade I'll Be There on my deservedly acclaimed 1992 MTV Unplugged album...
Rabies is harder to spot than many people think; its carriers do not always appear to be crazed and menacing. In fact, they may seem tame or merely sick, inviting kindly passersby to make the potentially fatal error of coming to their aid. A bite or scratch is not absolutely necessary: two victims have picked up rabies in caves from breathing air contaminated by infected bats...
...Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman whose last task as a civilian was to grade papers on "The Gamut of Love...
Breathes there a journalist with soul so pure that he or she would turn down all that? Doubtful. Those of us who scribble for a living have demonstrated that if you scratch us, you'll find a TV personality waiting, with batting eyelashes, to be discovered. For all of print's tut-tutting about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing...