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...months hospitalized for three major abdominal surgeries, I can identify with Garrison Keillor and his description of his slow recovery from major surgery [ESSAY, Aug. 13]. When we do survive an operation and undergo a long recovery process, we realize how truly wonderful life is. Our selective thinking processes alter in deciding what is important and what is not. We learn to live with what we have, even if it is not what we want. These are revelations that make the hospital experience almost worthwhile. I compare it with my military service when I was drafted during the Korean...
...assessing Israeli bomb damage Monday. And for Arafat the ruse is self-defeating, since the further down that road he goes the more difficult becomes the return to negotiations he so desperately seeks, while his erstwhile rivals in the Islamist camp are quite happy to embrace his gun-toting alter...
Having avoided that classic trap, McGee falls into a newer one. Some modern Shakespearean directors feel it necessary to alter Shakespeare’s plays in order distinguish their piece as an original production, failing to ground their revisions in the original text. McGee commits the error in creating a series of textually baseless flashbacks in the mind of the Friar, who McGee portrays as the ultimate villain; though the sequences are well executed, they only confuse the audience and detract from the show...
...Bush wants to truly alter the public perception of his White House?s environmental stance, he?ll need a more visible fight - news coverage Tuesday of the EPA?s decision was mostly as a local story (with the exception of GE corporate child MSNBC, which gave it high billing) - and maybe even one that Bill Clinton didn?t think of first...
...have to understand. All that responsibility is a lot of pressure. I?m on the front lines of this $40 billion mailing - what I do with my $300 could influence stock prices this summer or alter Fed policy for its August 27 meeting. (And I know the bond markets are watching me like a hawk.) So I?ve been thinking very carefully...