Word: shells
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...Patients shell out a deductible and 20% or so in fees after that. The norm for decades, these plans withered during the '90s managed-care revolution, victimized by rapidly escalating costs...
...often been accused of lacking one. Giuliani has always enjoyed playing the crime-fighting superhero, but he has, famously, been a cold and merciless crusader--a bane to squeegee pests, jaywalkers, homeless people, welfare moms, police-shooting victims and city-council Democrats. But Giuliani's shell cracked open on Friday, when he announced his decision. His sharpness and arrogance fell away, and he was revealed as a man shaken to his core by cancer--someone who has learned what it's like to be vulnerable and frightened, someone who now regrets his oft-displayed lack of sympathy for the vulnerable...
...this complexity be a product of a slow, painstaking process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible had taken place. "One does not enshrine...
Fulbright would roll over in his grave at the comparison. The Foreign Relations Committee is only a shell of what it was when the influential Arkansas Democrat was its chairman from 1959 to 1974. "The dirty little secret is they don't do very much now," says a senior Administration aide. Helms sticks to a few cold war issues like Russia and China and lets the panel's younger Republicans lead hearings on other subjects. But Helms' committee still approves State Department nominees and treaties, a power he has used in a masterly way to become a de facto Foreign...
...what we really want to know is, How do you go from one day being perhaps the second most powerful person in the country, as the Washington Post had it, to becoming a bloated, hairless, poisoned shell of yourself, without drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...