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...part of a much broader overhaul of Medicare that would change the program's very nature and put private insurance companies in competition with the government to provide coverage to the nation's 33 million elderly. By comparison, Vice President Al Gore's far more expensive proposal would tinker around the edges of the current system, giving uninsured people as young as 55 a chance to buy into the program and adding prescription-drug coverage on top of the other benefits provided by Medicare...
...Vidal did not tinker with or update his 1960 play for its current Broadway incarnation, preferring to offer it as a period piece, a reminder of a time when important decisions were actually made at political conventions. He says he still had some faith in the U.S. political system when he wrote "The Best Man," but no longer does. If he were to put the current situation onstage, "it would be set in a boardroom of something like ITT, General Electric. You'd watch the directors of this big company auditioning politicians, maybe actors. Maybe they'd go directly...
Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
...part of a much broader overhaul of Medicare that would change the program's very nature and put private insurance companies in competition with the government to provide coverage to the nation's 33 million elderly. By comparison, Vice President Al Gore's far more expensive proposal would tinker around the edges of the current system, giving uninsured people as young as 55 a chance to buy into the program and adding prescription-drug coverage on top of the other benefits provided by Medicare...
...locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...