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...officer in 1970, right after the troubles of 1969, the University was in a terrible state; people were not talking to other people, the faculty was fractured and divided, students were broken down into warring political factions," Gomes continues. "Harvard Square had become a war zone with buildings with steel grates and metal bars keeping people from trashing them...
...Federal Government, medical costs have become the fastest-growing major item, increasing at more than 8% annually at a time when inflation is only about 5%. For corporate America, health care has become a crippling expense. General Motors laid out $3.2 billion last year, more than it spent on steel, to provide medical coverage for 1.9 million employees, dependents and retirees. Unchecked, the U.S. medical bill will more than double in the next 10 years, to $1.6 trillion, crowding out spending for other urgent needs. "Health-care costs have created an American state of siege," says Florida Governor Lawton Chiles...
...homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market novelists, but that kind of pedestrian vulgarity is increasingly overwhelmed by the energy, quality and variety of the town's truly provocative attractions: a first-class symphony orchestra, lively art galleries and museums, adventurous theater, special events like...
...such attention comes at a daunting price: the rise of the victimization drama. We're not talking about glitzy, Danielle Steel soap operas, or the traditional disease-of-the-week tearjerker. These are more "serious" dramas, frequently based on real-life news events and dealing with important issues. Stripped to their essence, however, they are about one thing: extravagant, glorious suffering...
...economy may have the last word on how Washington responds to stubbornly stagnant business conditions. The Commerce Department said last week that orders for such durable goods as steel, machinery and aircraft fell 3.2% in September following a 4.1% decline the previous month, indicating that the recovery is barely kicking. Unless the economy can right itself soon, the pressure on politicians to appear to do something to help their constituents is likely to keep growing...