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...discoveries published in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly has set off a firestorm. It's not news that J.F.K. was in poor health much of the time, but Dallek paints the fullest and most unnerving picture yet of a President in constant pain from degenerative bone disease and heavily medicated. It raises the obvious question of whether voters should have known more about the health of a man who Dallek says often could barely climb a flight of stairs and could not put on his own socks. Dallek describes X rays showing that some of J.F.K.'s vertebrae...
...minutes; Churchill creates galaxy-size stories with black-hole prose. In "A Number" she has pared future shock, tomorrow horror, down to the bone - past the bone, really, to the DNA that makes every clone a Bernard, and every Bernard pathetically or tragically different...
Never before in my three years covering Harvard football have I seen—and heard—so many bone-crunching hits in one game. It was as if the Crimson defense was letting loose a season’s worth of frustration on the hapless Columbia players...
...DIED. LO LIEH, 59, Chinese action star of Five Fingers of Death, the first Hong Kong martial arts film to make an impact beyond Chinese-language theaters; of a heart attack; in Shenzhen. Lieh later played reliably fierce villains in kung fu bone crackers such as Dirty Ho and Ninja Massacre, and co-starred with Jackie Chan and Chow...
...invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, because people refuse...