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With today's edition, The Crimson begins its standard daily schedule. Everyday but Sunday...
...African Americans live below the official poverty line (an income of $12,000 a year for a family of four), in contrast to 12% of whites. Although the Medicaid program offers free treatment to the poorest citizens, many low-income working people are not fully insured. Moreover, the everyday struggle to survive often takes precedence over health care. "For many people the question may be 'Do I go to work today, or do I see the doctor?' " says Dr. Earl Scott, medical director of the Sydenham Clinic, part of a network of free clinics in Harlem...
Many East Europeans watched the dismantling of the Soviet Communist Party last week with a sense of deja vu. Although it has been almost a year since the last Soviet bloc nation was ruled by a communist monolith (Bulgaria in December), traces of the party still lace everyday life in most former satellites...
...people had assumed unmistakable moral dimensions. Then came the three novels that won her wide and deserved readership -- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer- prizewinning Breathing Lessons (1988) -- in which the seams between the joy and pain, the comedy and tragedy of everyday existence became impossible to distinguish...
...Rich decided to fight back. His weapon: a movie camera. "I wasn't interested in film because I loved film or some director," says the 19-year- old director of Straight Out of Brooklyn. "I was angry that everybody around me got destroyed, and I wanted to show that everyday struggle...