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According to Rosenbaum, over 20 campus organizations are working in conjunction with RUS to put on the week's activities. These include the Undergraduate Council, the Institute of Politics, Philips Brooks House Association, University Health Services and various ethnic and counseling organizations.CrimsonHenry G. WeiAuthor CHIRSTOPHER BRAM reads from his new book, Gossip, at Dudley House yesterday...
...movie deal with ABC; he has ceased communicating with them. The dissension is likely to reverberate. While Applewhite led 38 followers into apparently blissful self-annihilation, his 20-year odyssey may have drawn a total of 200 to 500 adherents, many of whom remain alive, still believe to various degrees and are beginning to argue about the meaning of the adventure and the stewardship of its legacy. One early disciple, Sharon Walsh of Colorado, believes the "Away Team" was limited to 39 for numerological reasons: 3 + 9 = 12, the number of Jesus' disciples (also, 1 + 2 = 3, or the Trinity...
Last fall B.H.C.A.G. distributed results of a survey conducted by HealthPartners rating all local medical services on various criteria--waiting time for appointments, the number of physicians on 24-hour call, the amount of time doctors spend with members and their children. While B.H.C.A.G. contracts with groups, employees choose which groups to join and which doctors within a group to consult. Supposedly they can now do so the same way they pick a barber shop or beauty parlor: weighing price against location, hours, type of facilities, number of doctors available, specialties in treating diseases. Plus, of course, those computerized pitches...
...managed-care plan will someday come--along with voluminous and bewildering packets of information supposedly designed to let the patients know what sort of health care they can expect. But how to choose? Some organizations, and even some popular magazines, have attempted to rank the HMOs, but their various methods of scoring are at cross-purposes--and may have little to do with the quality of care. For starters, some HMOs have simply declined to participate in these surveys or submit to the accreditation process established by the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance. Moreover, a recent Massachusetts study found...
...Sacred Cows, a notorious and as yet unproduced screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who is most famous for writing Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Sacred Cows, which is being developed by MGM, tells the story of a President who is caught having a trans-species tryst in a barn. At various times, according to Eszterhas, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman and Robert Zemeckis have all been attached to the film as directors. "It's a comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President of the U.S. has to tell the truth." Indeed, the screenplay's climax...