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...text. All of the action takes place in Dodge and Halie's open, spare, white living room. The stage is tilted and slopes toward the audience, creating the uncomfortable sense that the actors, at any minute, may fall into the empty orchestra pit. The sheer size of the steep, imposing staircase that looms in the background makes it seem to have much more to do with the action of the play than it actually does. But it looks great nonetheless, especially when the scrim behind it is somehow made to look like falling rain...
...today that there will be no agreement," the House Speaker said Wednesday from Casper, Wyoming. "It may just be that we need one more election." Minutes after his comments, stock prices dropped 35 points. By the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 97.19 points, a steep decline that compounded a 67.55-point drop on Tuesday. It was the ninth-worst point drop ever, and the biggest since budget negotiations stalled on December 18. In shattering the prospect of the first balanced budget in three decades, the Speaker's remarks helped deepen investor pessimism about economic prospects...
...contractually bound not to tell people under their care? Most crucially, according to Himmelstein and other critics of for-profit HMOs, the dirty little secret is how their doctors' pay may go up if they limit the treatments they provide or recommend. Himmelstein charges that many HMOs "offer doctors steep financial incentives--what I consider bribes--to minimize care." In his U.S. Healthcare agreement, he says, he was promised bonuses based on a formula for keeping his patients out of hospitals; if the total number of days they spent hospitalized exceeded a fixed number, he would receive no money...
...great French storyteller Honore de Balzac could have written this tale of a Faustian bargain gone terribly wrong. In 1965 lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray agreed to "purchase" the house of an elderly client with $500-a-month installments, then a steep price--on condition that he would inherit the property outright the moment she died. Last week, 30 years older and $180,000 poorer, Raffray, 77, expired on Christmas Day. His client, Jeanne Calment, celebrated the holiday with a sumptuous hotel banquet in her hometown of Arles. "We all make bad deals in life," she joked to Raffray when...
...same skills he used as a mover and shaker in the state assembly: many promises, many coalitions. The question is whether those skills will make him a good mayor, or whether San Francisco will end up with a lot of warring factions." Jackson says the city's already steep cost of living may grow worse under Brown, since the unions, angered by Jordan's unwillingness to accede to their demands for pay raises, have thrown their support behind Brown, expecting better odds with...