Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mitchell attended a state dinner for Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Thursday was Mitchell's 51st birthday; the duo had planned to slip away to a hotel in the Virginia countryside, where they got married in April. But both were so exhausted that they decided to stay home. Alan presented Andrea with a gold necklace ("I was amazed he had the time to shop," she says). Meanwhile, Mitchell fixed dinner in their northwest Washington home. After feasting on pasta, salad and chocolate cake, the chairman of the Federal Reserve did the dishes. Unlike the chairman's other activities...
...Reported by Kevin Fedarko/Duluth and Andrea Sachs/New York
...When Andrea Thaler, 46, was wheeled into the operating room for routine gallbladder surgery five years ago, she thought she was in a safe place. But as soon as the operation began, the Nashville, Tenn., HMO executive realized that the sedatives and pain-killers administered by her anesthesiologist hadn't quite taken hold. She could feel the surgeon make six "slicing, burning" laparoscopic incisions in her abdomen, but she was trapped by the paralytic drugs given along with the anesthesia, and she couldn't cry out or even open her eyes. "I was screaming in a black hole," she recalls...
...book's press notes, Andrea Barrett, whose National Book Award-winning collection of short stories Ship Fever is good enough that she should have known better, compares Old Scores to the famous story of the ill-fated lovers Abelard and Heloise. The parallel between the two stories is obvious--both are tales of ill-fated love affairs between teacher and student--but the comparison is specious. The passion between Abelard and Heloise has inspired great literature and art for eight centuries, but the passion between Beth Sieverdsen and Paul Ballard is just a rip-off of their love...
...Reported by William Dowell/Jackson Township and Andrea Sachs/New York