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Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann looked beneficent, his eyes cast up to the oil painting of the Great Emancipator above the mantel of the state dining room, his throwing arm restrained by his tuxedo, his hands folded as in supplication, his partner the dainty Nancy Reagan instead of the "diesel" John Riggins. In his dignified spectacles, Actor Burt Reynolds could have been taken for a professor of Chinese art. At his side was Dinah Shore, gracefully gowned with Hollywood-style decolletage...
...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...
...third Leverett student hurt in the crash, Peter B. Strong '85, is recuperating in Memphis and will take an additional semester off to rehabilitate his damaged leg and arm before returning to Harvard this fall, Strong said last night...
...right to terminate her existence, but not .. . with the assistance of society." Three days later, Bouvia stopped drinking the liquid protein that was keeping her alive. Three days after that, although she struggled with all the strength her frail body could muster, an I.V. tube was inserted in her arm. It was replaced, on Christmas Day, with a nasogastric feeding tube. Since the force-feeding began, a 24-hour nurse and guard have been posted by her bed to prevent her from sabotaging the tubes. Bouvia's lawyers last week lost several bids to get Hews' order immediately...
...Milo Stephens Jr., a 19-year-old with a long history of emotional disturbance, threw himself into the path of a subway train as it pulled into a station on Manhattan's East Side. One of the cars ran over him, severing a leg, one arm and part of the other. Several months later his family retained Aaron Broder, an enterprising personal-injury lawyer, who sued the New York City Transit Authority for negligence. Broder acknowledged that Stephens had put himself at risk by jumping, but he was prepared to try to prove that the motorman had been negligently...