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A piece describes the manifold accomplishments of National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, who has won bipartisan support for the research center, focused the NIH on nuts-and-bolts research rather than disease-of-the-week fads, and artfully guided the human genome project.
Isn't it a little self-pitying to ascribe misplaced guilty liberalism and soggy altruism to the same folks who bring us season after season of formulaic sitcoms, spandexed soap operas, and disease-of-the-week movies?