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...After many vials of blood have been taken from my arm, I am dressed in my patient's uniform--white polo shirt sporting the Cleveland Clinic logo and loose blue trousers--and seated across a desk from Dr. Richard Lang, section head of preventive medicine at Cleveland Clinic and my internist for the day. With unexpected deliberation, given the harried pace of American medicine, he spends the next hour questioning me--work, family, stresses, satisfactions, diet, diseases, sex life--progressing from the general to the specific. The goal of his detective work is to elicit hints of any underlying conditions...
When you take my arm, and we begin that awkward stately walk toward your husband-to-be, I will envy him only one thing. He will be able to see you coming toward him. He will behold you in your brightness, confidence and wonder, as you cause everyone to gasp in amazement--just as you did the day you were first presented to the world...
...distinctive postwar note. His landscapes bristled with rusting machinery and ominous border crossings. He could be chatty: "Let me tell you a little story." He shied away from definitive statements, hedging even his love poems with limiting adjectives: "Lay your sleeping head, my love,/ Human on my faithless arm...
PARIS: Air France pilots have finally figured it out: Going on strike just ahead of the World Cup may be a good strong-arm tactic to use with the bosses, but it ain't exactly going to win any sympathy contests. With thousands of soccer fans -- not to mention Eritreans attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket...
Rowe succeeded John Shattuck, now U.S. assistant secretary of state, as the head of Harvard's lobbying and public relations arm three years into Rudenstine's tenure...