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...will boost taxes on alcohol and tobacco to help meet the $50 billion-to-$70 billion price tag for providing insurance to America's 37 million uninsured. Sin taxes alone, however, won't be enough. Last week Magaziner privately asked representatives of large and small businesses how best to cap costs in the short term while phasing in benefits more slowly. That idea concerns some in the White House, who insist, as one put it, "We have to create winners before we create losers...
...disaster waiting to happen. The father (Francois Cluzet), a country vet, is angry and impotent. The mother (Brigitte Rouan) is vague and forgetful, unhealthily doting on her younger child Olivier. Olivier's elder sister Nadine (Marina Golovine) thinks entirely too much about extraterrestrials. When Olivier, wearing his red cap, disappears while taking food to his grandmother's house (the fairy-tale parallel is obvious), grief becomes his family's excuse to surrender to their separate pathologies...
...gloat that he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from the buying sprees Steinbrenner made fashionable. George, we're guessing, will not need a cap. Only a muzzle...
Harvard added one big feather to its cap--a 3-2 comeback win over the Tigers--but also got its wings clipped by a disappointing 3-0 loss to the Midshipmen...
...crashes. GM trucks do not, of course, explode in half of all sideways collisions, or there wouldn't be many left on the road. So the consultants helped things along. As GM later demonstrated, the truck that did burn -- apparently because it had an ill-fitting gas-tank cap, made for a different truck -- ignited for only about 15 sec. But to ensure that its images were graphic, NBC used tightly edited shots in which the flames looked much worse...