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There's no excuse for the yearly tide of HSTO-related problems. By this time, the telephone service's administrators should have some idea of what to expect from the annual ritual. Perhaps next year will be better. Of course, some of us won't be around to enjoy...
...state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). No one can controvert Fried's qualifications as a scholar, but he does leave much to be desired in other areas. He has no experience as a jurist at the state level, and his political views will further submerge Massachusetts in the conservative tide initiated by Gov. William F. Weld...
...proposals that actually are under discussion, some are variations on what might be called "the King Canute solution": just order the tide of Medicare spending to stop. The King Canute solution comes in large and small sizes. The large version is a cap on total Medicare spending. But a cap is not a plan; it is merely an aspiration. It puts off the inevitable decisions about how exactly the spending tide is to be stopped, and at whose expense...
...live in our primitive past isn't to say we can't learn from it. It is, after all, the world in which our currently malfunctioning minds were designed to work like a Swiss watch. And to say we'll decline the Unabomber's invitation somehow to turn the tide of technological history isn't to say technology doesn't have its dark side. We don't have to slavishly emulate, say, the Old Order Amish, who use no cars, electricity or alcohol; but we can profitably ask why it is that they suffer depression at less than one-fifth...
TURNING OF THE TIDE...