Word: brained
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DIED. Mother Pasqualina Lehnert, 89, austere German nun who, as the de facto secretary, housekeeper and confidante of Pope Pius XII, was called the Pope's Guardian Angel; of a brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...
...more generally, he bolstered the intellectual role in running the country. While Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 both made brain trusts their trademarks. Kennedy brought the practice to new heights. Abram Chayes, Frankfurter Professor of Law and legal adviser to the State Department under Kennedy, says that his boss "was the watershed. He made [blending academics and government] very attractive and easy to do." Chayes notes. "It was a different sense of involvement between the presidency and the academic community than ever before. Academics became a power position...
...from going back to school, first to a community college and then, in 1980, transferring to Smith's innovative degree program for older women. For three days a week Palano lives on campus, taking courses paid for through a variety of grants and loans. "Just finding out your brain still works at this age is a neat thing," she says...
Other characters display unusual gifts. One woman bears a mathematical progression of children on the same date of each succeeding year (first twins, then triplets, etc.). There is a brain-damaged girl who psychically absorbs the shame that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
...Anyway?, and sought answers from lawyers and judges, who are the first to admit they are ill-equipped to deal with them. Baby Jane Doe, as she is known in New York court documents, was born Oct. 11 with a protruding spinal cord, excess fluid on the brain, an abnormally small head and other serious defects. Doctors concluded that the child would be paralyzed, severely retarded and in pain for however long she lived. That term, they added, would be a maximum of two years without corrective surgery; with it, she might live to be 20. Baby Jane...