Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little boy" must have been humming Thank Heaven for Little Girls over his good fortune. Who else but a morally indifferent ingenue would coo over his feeling sorry for himself because a soldier had died in Bosnia and would let him use it as an excuse to violate his fidelity calendar: the record she said he kept of the days he didn't cheat on his wife, like an alcoholic crossing off days he stays off the sauce. One frightening claim in the book is that the President became "sexually aroused" by Monica's description of her own Bosnia visit...
...parents didn't have enough to feel guilty about. Some advocacy groups are trying to convince them that circumcision--the cutting away of the foreskin of the penis--is the most barbaric thing they can do to a newborn boy. Others believe circumcision will make a boy healthier and happier all his life. The truth is far less dramatic. According to a review of 40 years of data published last week by the American Academy of Pediatrics, circumcision does provide some potential medical benefits, but they are not so overwhelming that parents should feel compelled to have it done...
...want to circumcise your son for religious, personal or cultural reasons, fine. If you don't, that's fine too. The pediatricians' group is adamant, however, in saying no boy should be circumcised without adequate pain relief. Perhaps 45% of U.S. circumcisions are still carried out without analgesia...
...pain that circumcision inflicts on babies, usually during their first days of life, can be dulled by an analgesic cream or shots of local anesthetic. Amid all the other shocks and discomforts of adjusting to life outside the womb, it's unlikely the procedure would leave a boy with lifelong trauma. Complications are uncommon and generally minor, involving a little bleeding or inflammation (and not accidental amputation). Older boys who undergo circumcision are typically given general anesthesia...
Tiger makes Oliver the trusted liaison with the Orlovs, who dismissively call him "Post Boy," until he grows sickened by the sort of traffic they conduct for their and his firm's profit. "lf I can go along with selling the blood of poor Russians," he asks himself, "where if anywhere will I draw the line?" So, after one more disillusioning visit with the Orlovs, Oliver deplanes at Heathrow Airport and impulsively asks to see a high-ranking officer of Her Majesty's Customs Service. As it turns out, Oliver is just the person that Nat Brock has been waiting...