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...center of The New Russians is the story of one Russian in particular, Mikhail Gorbachev. Smith deftly presents a biography of Gorbachev that puts him into the context of national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system...
...True enough. But the hearing had some odd ripples. One unintended result was to make North something of a national hero. And in the end, the congressional investigators failed to elicit from Poindexter hard information about Ronald Reagan's complicity. That remains murky. Former Senator John Tower, who headed a special Iran-contra investigative commission that operated independently of Congress, suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a "deliberate" cover-up effort...
Even among those fortunate enough to be insured, the leading side effect of illness is often financial doom. Consider the elderly, whose federally sponsored insurance program, Medicare, inspires so much drooling and sharpening of knives at budget time. Even with Medicare, older Americans are forced to spend more than 15% of their income for medical care annually. And since nursing-home care is virtually uncovered, the elderly are pushed to degrading extremes -- like divorcing a beloved spouse -- in order to qualify for help through a long-term debilitating illness. Or, as more than one public figure has suggested, they...
...have fanned the crisis by blithely reimbursing the fees of greedy practitioners and expansionary hospitals. Then, as costs rise, the private insurers seek to shed the poorest and the sickest customers, who get priced out or summarily dropped. For some companies, a serious and costly illness is a good enough reason to cancel a policy. Others refuse to insure anybody who might be gay and hence, actuarially speaking, might get AIDS...
There was more than enough time to catch the telescope's flaw. Rough grinding of the mirror began in 1978, final polishing was not finished until 1981, and the completed telescope sat on the ground for four years after the space shuttle program was disrupted by the Challenger explosion. The mirror's manufacturer, Connecticut-based Perkin-Elmer Corp.,* told NASA that the standards of precision established for the mirror were not only met but exceeded. The only problem was that the mirror had been painstakingly polished into the wrong shape...