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...formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body?s different systems -- cardiovascular, reproductive and so on -- work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony. The flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon?s role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. "Nuland generally writes with a clarity that...
...canned entertainment, shopping, restaurants and tourist attractions, and with the hoped-for blend of high, middle and low brow, 42nd Street's caretakers are aiming to re-create the traditional ambiance and uses of 42nd Street in a late-'90s context. Since 42nd Street's traditional ambiance is chaotic, the city and state are in the odd position of planning something that is supposed to appear unplanned. Conundrum or not, they so far seem to have succeeded, despite critics' fears that the block would become an 800-ft.-long Disney World. "This is 42nd Street," Cahan reminds us. "It rains...
...exam was clearly conducted in a chaotic atmosphere. Particularly disturbing to me was the report that many students continued to write after time had been called, that other students called the attention of this to the teaching fellows (who were all on the stage, in no position to fairly supervise the exam), and that the teaching fellows did nothing about...
With his cherubic appearance and unpretentious, rambling speaking style, Arledge never fit the classic image of a news president. He occasionally rankled network executives with his free-spending ways, and those under him sometimes complained about his "chaotic" management style. Some insiders say Arledge's focus was wandering increasingly in recent years; day-to-day operations were mostly handled by Paul Friedman, executive vice president of news, who was passed over for the top spot. Still, Arledge is widely revered by ABC News veterans, who toss around words like genius when referring to him. "He's the best news president...
Astrologer Gillian Helfgott should thank her lucky stars. Her husband, the mentally skewed Australian pianist David Helfgott, whose story is told in the affecting movie Shine, has sold out his 11-city North American tour; Shine has received seven Oscar nominations; chaotic though it is, Helfgott's recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto (the "Rach 3" of the movie) is a hot seller, and Love You to Bits and Pieces, Gillian's fuzzy-warm book about how she rescued this lost soul and lofted him to stardom, has 185,000 copies in print. "It's almost...