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In article <SMITH.93Mar24182949@minerva.harvard.edu> smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) writes:
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>[Taken without permission from the Wall Street Journal, March 24, 1993.
>The text was scanned with an OCR machine; there are undoubtedly typos,
>but if you think like an OCR reader, you should be able to unscramble them.]
>
>Remember Kremlinology? And Sinology? Back in the days of the Soviet
>Union and Mao's China, to find out who was running things in those
>countries, Western experts would pore over photographs of government
>functions, checking out which officials were present.  Elaborate
>theories about political power in Moscow or Beijing were built on the
>basis of which official was standing next to Brezhnev at the May Day
>parade or which general was now being airbrushed out of earlier photos
>of Mao on the Great March.
>
>In Washington in 1993, things aren't that easy.  At least not so far
>as Hillary Rodham Clinton's task force on health care reform is
>concerned.  The White House hasn't released any photographs of the
>500-plus people who are now drafting a plan to redo the nation's
>health care system.  In fact, it won't even release their names.

    Plotting a Soviet-style health care system requires likewise secrecy.

>These anonymous men and women toil in secret, devising a reform plan
>that will affect every single American and is likely to be the largest
>and most expensive domestic program since the New Deal.

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