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...novelists with a satirical bent, basing characters on enemies, rivals and unfaithful lovers has provided an accepted tool of revenge. Ernest Hemingway scored in The Sun Also Rises (Harold Loeb, the now-forgotten model for Robert Cohen, was satisfactorily furious, and one of the minor real-life woman characters took to bed for a week). Aldous Huxley did a number on D.H. Lawrence as the brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand...
With shirtsleeves rolled up and rubber boots protecting his feet, the grey-haired man bent like a peasant to the task of planting rice shoots in the flooded paddy. That might seem plebeian labor for an emperor, but Hirohito of Japan, 75, has always shown deep sympathy for the farming millions of his subjects, and made it a royal duty to take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined...
When moral rules are bent, more than sport is mangled. In the end, it is not the players who are cheapened and injured, nor even the event itself. It is the children and adults who watch and then repeat what they see on the playground and in the stands - and perhaps in their lives. The Bad News Bears is not yet a sports documentary. But what if it be comes one? Would any title be more fitting than that of another movie: End of the Game? Stefan Kanfer
...Hospital, San Francisco (medicine), Presbyterian Hospital, New York City (medicine), University of Texas Southwestern Affiliated Hospitals, Dallas (medicine), Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut (surgery), Children's Center University Hospital, Seattle, Washington (pediatrics), Standford University Hospital, California (medicine), Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, New York City (pediatrics), Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston (medicine...
John L. Springs, a technician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, said "We're going to smash [Davis] for the lies he tells," leading the protestors to chant, "Davis, you liar, we'll set your ass on fire...