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Patient Advocate Linda C. Cannon plays a unique role at UHS—the official health care provider for thousands of students and Harvard employees...
...Cannon responds to more than 700 complaints each year by phone, email or in person. All together, Cannon’s many hats—working with students and staff alike—make for a long workday. She normally works 10- to 11-hour shifts and often eats lunch at her desk...
...does Blair propose to rouse them from their sleepwalking? First, he will train his rhetorical cannon on Iraq's persistence as a lawbreaker. According to London, Baghdad is already in violation of at least 23 U.N. Security Council resolutions, including nine on WMDs. Blair will also focus on how big and long-standing Iraq's secret WMD program has been. European officials say Saddam has biological and chemical warheads that could be placed on missiles within weeks, if they're not ready now. More ominously, he has been boosting nuclear procurement, and has mastered the 150-km missiles...
DIED. HOWARD CANNON, 90, World War II pilot turned Democratic Senator from Nevada who lost re-election in 1982 after Teamster members were accused--and later convicted--of offering him a bribe for helping to kill a bill deregulating the trucking industry; in Las Vegas. He insisted he was never approached for a quid pro quo, and he was never indicted...
...chest to raise an army. Most Afghanis loathe him as the commander responsible for reducing Kabul to rubble in a fierce power struggle with rival commanders that killed tens of thousands of people in the early 1990s. But his virulent anti-Americanism makes him a dangerous loose cannon amid the power struggles that persist throughout the Pashtun heartland. And he makes no bones about his intentions: "We prefer involvement in internal war rather than occupation by foreigners and foreign troops," he told an interviewer...