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...Crimson, down 1-0 and then 2-1 in the match, was on the brink of blemishing its untarnished league record...
...with managed care's unwillingness to compensate them fully, are rebelling against providing voluntary, on-call backup, a critical component of the ED system. To keep them on duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily bonuses to neurosurgeons and orthopedists. "We are on the brink of an implosion," cautions Dr. Loren Johnson, director of the ED at Sutter-Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., and co-chair of an industry task force that investigated the problem. The state lacks the capacity to handle a major catastrophe, like an earthquake or forest fire, a report by the California emergency...
...forlornness of game show prodigy Stanley Spector like the best of character actors, depicting impeccably the angst of a child sequestered from the world by the curse of genius. And Walters, who has heretofore been relegated to the margins of Anderson's films, is devastating as the coked-up, brink-of-breakdown Claudia, who can't stand to be loved because she thinks so lowly of herself. That's not all, though; the magnificent Hall is also in top form, as is Hoffman. And Reilly. And Cruise. And so on, all the way down the line of supporting roles...
...RYDER CUP TEAM It shouldn't have been close. But as the final day's play began, the Sergio Garcia-led Euros were on the brink of humiliating the superstar-laden U.S. team again. Then the Americans made the most remarkable comeback in Ryder Cup history, winning 9 of 12 matches--and exulting with an ungolflike, but very American, dog pile on the 17th green...
...Noel if he was afraid of death," Stritch recalled, "and he said the only thing he feared was that he wouldn't be remembered." It is his oceanic talent--the range of skills that made him seem, so inaccurately, a dilettante--that has brought Coward's fear to the brink of sad, sad fact...