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...Blendon's assessment will hold only after the tangled complexities of the Clinton plan begin to sink into public consciousness. "There has never been a national debate over health care, and these terms are all new to the American people," says Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "We're going to have an extraordinary period of public education...
...disarray, unpopular political appointments, unsettled land grievances and shattered economic hopes -- remain unaffected. Though few citizens are girding for a resumption of the civil war that despoiled Nicaragua throughout the 1980s, there is a palpable fear that if the two sides do not continue a dialogue, the country will sink from political polarization into chaos. "Our tradition has been to divide in times of crisis," says Jose Pallais, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "The solution has always been for one group to get on top and squash the other...
...never mind the old expression that you're digging your grave with your teeth; there is growing suspicion, not to mention evidence, that our national-fitness fixation has come off the hinge, that there are those among us who are guiltlessly, remorselessly, allowing themselves to kick off their Nikes, sink deep into a couch and stay there. "You used to be quite a dish," said a middle-aged wag upon meeting a former lover. "Now you're quite the tureen...
...Nation and People. And for the disbeliever, this shocker: this isn't a neurotic nightmare--here at Harvard, we lazies have met the enemy, and it is the overachieve. When we return to school and read that they've already won the Hoopes, the rest of us will sink back in despair...
Mike Spencer, a divorced father of two, rises slowly to speak but the tears flow before the words. He stammers, "What in God's name are you kids doing with your lives?" In the corner, seven young men sink lower and lower in their chairs, their faces disappearing beneath an assortment of baseball caps. Spencer is too upset to say any more. Joseph Henry, a father of six, stands up. "I've been to four funerals in North Omaha, all kids," he says. "Can't young people get together without slaughtering each other...