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...would be reduced by much of the $80 billion that now goes for "administrative overhead," producing savings that, according to the General Accounting Office, would be sufficient to insure everyone, without deductibles, coinsurance or Oregon-style rationing. It would still be the job of the new single payer to crack down -- not on consumer overutilization but on rampant profiteering and plain old corruption (doctors referring patients to their own profitmaking CAT-scanning facilities, for example...
...underappreciated and misunderstood." L.A. lawyer David Carleton had his teeth loosened by a client who didn't like his plea arrangement. Manhattan's Judith White needs all seven days of the week to handle her load of drug cases -- a task she continues to tackle even since a crack addict murdered her father four years ago. When Lynne Borsuk filed a motion with Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reduce her load of 122 open cases, she was demoted to juvenile court. She was lucky; others have been fired for similar actions...
...laidback, fun-loving party animal with a heart of gold and remarkable resilience in the face of big guns, psychotic boyfriends, drug busts and inexplicably dead celebrities. Dulcy is a repressed yet ambitious rock columnist who is so jittery and uptight that it's amazing she doesn't crack under all the pressure she experiences as she chases down an interview with the untalkative rock superstar, Linus Crump (Evan Sandman...
...Deconstructing Racism. Finally, let's take a crack at that oppressive monolith of a word, "racism." I will just suggest a first, crucial distinction we can make, which is between contemporary and historical racism. As sociologist Michael Harrington explained in his 1984 book, The New American Poverty, "racism is too easy an explanation" because it implies "that the social and economic disorganization faced by Black Americans was the result of the psychological state of mind of white America, a kind of deliberate--and racist--ill will...
...political wheeler-dealer who was Bill Clinton's surprise choice to be U.S. Trade Representative, Kantor had little experience in the acronymic arcana of GATT and NAFTA and other trade agreements. Yet he has proved a remarkably quick study, in the manner of a crack litigator mastering a complex brief. He is, by training and nature, an aggressive lawyer and lobbyist. Kantor sees himself not as a peacemaker but as a warrior who, as he puts it, "hates to lose." (Those who beat him at tennis have learned to watch out for his flying racquet.) He has represented migrant farmworkers...