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...been particularly good at prevention. The tack, usually, is to patch people up as they get sick, rather than keeping them from falling ill to start. But no Band-Aid is sufficient to handle a lethal pandemic, which some experts say is inevitable - if not imminent. Whether it's bird flu or some other deadly knock-out germ that eventually sweeps through the country, scientists and public-health researchers are trying to prepare for it now to ensure that everyone has a better chance of survival...
...became fate. We've seen it with our own eyes. Larry Bird made everyone around him better; Elvis made everyone around him fatter, to judge by photographs of the Memphis Mafia--entourage members expanding and contracting like a bellows in time with their boss...
Thousands say farewell to Lady Bird Johnson...
Ordinarily, the concept of greed isn't very useful in trying to understand the economy. We are all greedy. We'd all like more. The magic of capitalism turns our individual greed into general prosperity. But maybe an especially virulent strain of greed is spreading, something like bird flu. Maybe this is a greed so profound that it blinds its victims to their obvious self-interest. Maybe this greed can turn the brightest men into fools. It's hard to think of any other explanation...
...without its memorable moments, most of which were thanks to Nicholas B. Krasney ’09. He played each of his ridiculous characters with ironic gusto—the only way Bunin’s characters are tolerable. He was particularly amusing as the gryphon, a bird-like creature that eats newborns in the village and kills his attackers. Krasney, as the vicious gryphon, sat in a balcony over the stage, which was set as a comfortable library. Krasney in a gryphon mask while drinking tea was a hilarious spectacle...