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ADMITTED. AL GOLDSTEIN, 57, publisher; to the National Press Club; in Washington. By being allowed to join the ultimate Establishment journalists organization, the puckish creator of the bluntly pornographic Screw magazine has been put on an equal footing with reporters and editors from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other more conventional publications. The move is deeply offensive to some club members, but Goldstein's papers were in order, and he had found the required two sponsors...
...Well, has the private sector run it efficiently? No. We've had this drummed into us for so long, that the public sector can't do things well, but then in the case of health care we have seen the private sector screw up on a tragic, disastrous scale. We have learned that the profit motive is not a good thing to base the delivery of health care around. Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America...
...against Cambodia going the way of oil-cursed nations like Nigeria and Chad. "Or they could do it wrong and they could suffer the political consequences in 20 years. This is their chance to be a real country. This is their chance to have a real economy. If they screw it up, they'll be a vassal state...
This is not what I've learned from decades of Mamet plays and movies, which suggest, actually, that left alone for three seconds, two people will screw each other over in really complicated ways that need to be figured out for hours after the play, over drinks and dinner. But he seemed to mean it. Mamet is reading so much (Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek) and writing even more (cartooning for the Huffington Post; blogging from the perspective of the main character in his new Broadway play, November; writing articles for magazines; composing essays about the theater) that...
...simply getting too wrapped up in the game. “If you’re a college student, don’t start to play unless you’ve got a number of hours of free time,” she said. “You might screw up your exams...