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Isn't that what the whole nasty fight over managed care and restraining Medicare costs is all about?
The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.
Ellen Barkin will, one day soon (if there's a God in heaven, and Revlon's stock continues to plummet as a feckless addlepated heir drives a once-thriving company into the ground with his big bald head) be changing her name to Ellen Cohen, if I can just get the judge to lift that restraining order.
Back to the NYT story on restraining the IRS: There's exactly one example given of the kinds of cases the revision would apply to, and it speaks volumes about the sort of people Republican tax reformers and/or Times reporters and editors most naturally think of: "..
And indeed, because the Web does much to create an open and level playing field for political expression, restraining it in the name of fairness seems counterproductive.