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...cheaper, less elaborate plans, making them cheaper still--not because of greater efficiency but because of what is known as "adverse selection." The consequence? To avoid punishing sick people--simply for being sick--will require far more government regulation than free-market enthusiasts for managed competition care to admit...
Marisa Bowe, editor of a new publication called Word, is the first to admit it isn't for everyone. "We don't have any movie or CD reviews," she says. "No celebrities. No Cindy Crawford. None of the usual product-pushing, hypey stuff." Nor is Word bothered--as its writers pursue such burning questions as "Do rock-'n'-roll musicians ever actually experience sexual rejection?"--by the usual constraints of paper, printing or distribution costs. Word goes straight from editor to reader without sacrificing any trees...
...society where several rounds of apologies will be made in the most trivial circumstances, the question of how to admit responsibility for the enormities Japan committed during the war has been a vexing one. Previous Prime Ministers used the term hansei, a fudge word meaning "regret," to express some measure of sorrow. Since his election last year, Murayama, a socialist at the head of an unwieldy coalition dominated by conservative Liberal Democrats, has been determined to show that Japan could at last admit its guilt. Liberal Democrats made sure the final wording of a Diet resolution was bloodless. So Murayama...
...admit that i'm prejudiced against the big commercial Internet providers. I've never expected great things from them, and certainly not from the Microsoft Network. But if Microsoft actually delivers all that it wants...
...journeys from Vermont to Washington State to confront her father and clear her mind before the birth of her child. What she finds is a feeble old man, clothed horribly in rags of strength and charm, too confused to admit the truth he has always denied. This is the best of the novel, as Julia realizes that there will be no healing resolution because, as usual, life's story lines are murky...