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...KNOW YOU'VE portrayed a villain well if the public hates you for your work. Barry Morse, a critically acclaimed British actor with 3,000 TV, film and stage roles to his credit, suffered everything from heckling to pocketbook beatings for his most famous role, Lieutenant Philip Gerard in TV's '60s hit series The Fugitive. As the heartless detective who doggedly hunts Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of killing his wife, Morse said, "I was the most hated man in America, and I loved...
...Romney 3.0 What happened in Michigan may be a signal of how the presidential race unfolds in the months to come, first as each party picks its nominee and then as the two winners square off in November. The pocketbook is back in a big way on the presidential campaign trail, rocketing past the Iraq war to the top of voter concerns. "For every candidate in either party, this is the supermarket-checkout moment: Do you get it? Do you understand what people are going through?" says Bruce Reed, who ran the policy shop for Bill Clinton...
...playing a dwindling role in the lives of Americans." This observation ignores the significant role the Roberts Court has assumed in shaping federal antitrust, labor and securities law. Big Business may be benefiting from the court's rulings at the expense of consumers, workers and small investors. Decisions on pocketbook issues may not make headlines or create strong emotional reactions, but they may ultimately have a greater impact on the average American than the more high-profile cases to which Von Drehle referred. Thus, I must respectfully dissent...
...Chemotherapy decisions are similarly dictated by pocketbook considerations. The greater likelihood of ER-negative breast cancer in Africans and Asians means that such drugs as the estrogen blockers are not on the menu of pharmaceutical options. That rules out one of the cheapest and most available breast-cancer drugs in Africa: a $150-a-dose generic version of tamoxifen (and even that would be far too expensive for many women). Traditional chemotherapy may cost $20,000 or more. Merely determining which type of cancer a woman has may require genetic testing, which can add an additional...
...focusing on revising Japan's pacifist constitution and making education more patriotic while ordinary Japanese were more worried about the country's growing income gap and its faulty pension system. Whether or not Abe resigns, the Japanese government will have to put aside its grander ambitions and make pocketbook issues a priority. "Abe couldn't figure out how to balance the people's interests with his own," says Etsushi Tanifuji, deputy dean of politics at Tokyo's Waseda University. Fortunately for Japan, the democratic system has a way of redressing that imbalance - it's called an election...