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Jackson has achieved even more. Where Kennedy was a voice for the poor, Jackson is the voice of the poor. Kennedy's link with the fringes of society was through compassion; Jackson's link--having grown up poor, black, and illegitimate--comes from shared experiences of alienation and persecution.
Catastrophic health care was only the first problem addressed in assisting the chronically ill who desperately need help in paying for nursing-home and home health care. As the population grays, those demands will grow. But paying for programs projected to cost $30 billion to $50 billion a year will...
Children also make up about one-third of the 37 million Americans who have no health insurance. Today the uninsured are sometimes dumped by hospital after hospital, forced to "crawl around like health-care beggars asking for some kindly doctor's or hospital's noblesse oblige," says Uwe Reinhardt, professor...
Calling his campaign one of "accessibility, availability, compassion and good judgement," State Representative hopeful Alvin E. Thompson minimized his political differences with his opponent yesterday.
But Another Woman is the work of the mature Allen, who has aspired to Bergmanesque seriousness and, after Interiors and September, has finally achieved it. His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit. Not that...