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Has anybody else been picking up on the effort to create a comparative health care storyline out of the Natasha Richardson tragedy? A friend mentioned a couple of days ago that she wondered if Richardson's death from ''talk and die'' syndrome would have been prevented had she fallen sick in the United States, and then today, this PR e-mail ...
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Hah, Jessica, thank you for posting that Meghan-McCain-as-goth-Betty-Boop TV clip. The thing I find the weirdest about McCain is that even as she flaunts her next-gen cred (telling Larry King she likes it when Republicans in their 40s and 50s bash her and encouraging the GOP to get with the 21st-century program), she's fashioning a personal image ...
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Hanna, your great post on the science of prostate cancer treatment reminded me of this interesting op-ed that ran in the Post a week back but that—amid the beginning simmerings of the AIG furor—didn't get much attention. The writer, an endocrinologist named David Shaywitz, suggested that we tend to treat scientific research with far too ...
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Marjorie, I'm glad you came out against Michael Steele's dorky grasp at urban cred. Sprinkling ''off the hook,'' ''friggin' awesome,'' and ''slum love'' into his discourse and then prancing around acting like he's started the business of redeeming the Republican Party suggests an insultingly superficial, cynical view of how voters make their ...
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Hanna, isn't Arlo Weiner pretty much to L.A. fashion as Jonathan Krohn is to D.C. politics, that is, a kid who's obviously trying hard to pick up the manners of a certain society? I find both these kids' fluid ease in navigating the language and habits of the adult circles that fascinate them a little unsettling -- it's supposed to be hard to grow ...
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Hot damn, Emily, that ABC News segment you linked is worse than you described! The creepiest part of the piece is the way in which the patriarch's 17 ''wives'' are given voice: They're interviewed as an afterthought, at the end of the segment, and then only sitting squeezed between men (are they really going to speak freely?), whereas the men are ...
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Emily Y, with a couple of days to let Obama's first annual address to Congress sink in, I totally agree with you re: its uncomfortable expansiveness. He exuded a wonderful self-possession, an almost amazing glow and confidence—amazing given the uneven success of his administration's first moves and the difficult decisions he faces. OK, GOP ...
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Jessica, it doesn't surprise me that tailors are getting rich these days. Last weekend, I was perusing the Bureau of Economic Analysis' quarterly data on Personal Consumption Expenditures by Type of Product (don't judge, it's a more amusing pastime than Sudoku in these apocalypse days) and noticed that it's the repair industries, like auto or ...
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Hanna, what did you make of Anne Applebaum's take on Hillary's so-practical-it's-just-short-of-cynical diplomatic style in today's Washington Post? It was kind of a grudging shout-out, too, although I thought Applebaum didn't give Hillary quite enough credit. Amnesty International, I understand, was ''disappointed'' that Clinton failed to ...
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Bristol, Bristol, Bristol—can we talk about Sarah Palin for a second, the public figure with whom we'll have to live for at least the next four years?
I thought her drop-in to Bristol's instant-classic Fox interview was creepy, domineering, and inappropriate. Greta Van Susteren established that doing the interview was Bristol's decision, and ...