Word: benjamin
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...four doctors who wrote recommendations for Hussain are: Dr. Benjamin G. Covino, professor of anaesthesia and head of the anaesthesiology department at BWH; Dr. Aaron J. Gissen, professor of Anaesthesia at the Affiliated Hospital Center; Dr. Ronald A. Gabel, assistant professor of Anaesthesia at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; and Dr. John Wark, a former staff member...
Foot's newest book, his eleventh, reflects that very amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...
...Benjamin Covina. head of anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a professor at the Medical School, and two other doctors wrote Hussian "impeccable recommendations" after the first trial ended, Sullivan said...
...maybe George will strike a blow for women's lib and hire the first female manager. Jane Fonda's been wondering how to get herself and the anti-nukes back in the headlines. Tom Hayden coaching at first, Dr. Benjamin Spock at third, and Harvard's George Wald in the bullpen telling the receivers about the little children of El Salvador...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...