Word: brief
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...angry? Too brief? Not repentant enough? Everyone's got an opinion about Bill Clinton's five-minute mea culpa, but a sharp divide is beginning to emerge between outraged pundits and the scandal-fatigued public. "The President was angrier and less contrite than anyone had expected," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Most commentators were surprised that he didn't really apologize, went out of his way to deny committing perjury and attacked Ken Starr. Many people inside the Beltway will see his performance as almost arrogant, but the public is sick enough of the whole thing to accept...
Then too, there are creature comforts aboard the shuttle that the Mercury pilots didn't dare dream about. Glenn's only meal on his first, brief mission in space was a tube of applesauce he sucked through a straw. The shuttle offers a decidedly better bill of fare, including such delicacies as smoked turkey, Kona coffee and dried apricots. All the meals are sealed in plastic packets, each of which is coded with a colored dot to indicate which crew member it is intended for. The color code for Brown, the commander, is red; for Glenn, a payload specialist...
...filed in your medical record. Since a lot of e-mail addresses consist of nicknames, be sure your message includes your real name and, if you know it, your patient identification number (or your child's or other family member's ID number, if appropriate). Keep your messages brief, and focus each e-mail on a single issue. If you want a prescription refill, be sure to include the pharmacy's name and telephone number...
...time.com/personal for more on medical e-mail. Send a brief e-mail about this article to Christine at gorman@time.com
...business world, medical world or whatever world you choose to live in (barring perhaps the world of unemployment, but even that has some duties that require attention) has so many obligations and duties that your time at Harvard may seem to have been nothing more than a brief nap. And brief it is--four years is hardly a blink in the timeline of our lives. Yet these years are supposed to be the best of our lives. Why not be happy...