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Galvin found that people with chronic pain either focus their lives on it, or consider it a monster to outwit and a goad to greater achievement. Says she: "President Kennedy, whose New Hampshire primary campaign I covered for TIME, was one of the latter. My husband, who has arthritis, is another. If ever I am confronted with chronic pain, I will try to remember these profiles in courage...
Ellis ended his address, with an admonition that "the ideal can never transcend the real." He added that if a portrait of John Harvard were to come to light, despite Harvard's "chronic poverty" the statue would be melted down and recast. The crowd then watched the unveiling and, according to accounts in The Crimson, "gave three cheers apiece for John Harvard, Mr. Bridge and Mr. French...
...Comperes sets two men -!' Crime Reporter Gerard Depardieu and Chronic Depressive Pierre Richard - on the trail of a runaway teen-ager each believes...
...silent populace and galvanizing the opposition. Now the anti-Marcos forces have high hopes of increasing the number of seats they hold in the 200-member parliament from 14 to more than 100. Disturbed by massive public protests, disabled at times by what is widely believed to be a chronic kidney disorder and debilitated by a sick and sagging economy, Marcos has never been more seriously challenged. But rising to challenges is his greatest strength. "The man is a counterpuncher," says a K.B.L. colleague. "He does not plan the future; he just goes from situation to situation, dividing and conquering...
...considered corrupt, and in establishing more than 4,000 elected village councils. When the nation's first election was held in 1958, he was swept into office. "revolutionary socialism" to industrialize the economy, and he turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. But Guinea remained beset by chronic underproduction, inflation and black-marketeering. In the mid-'70s, Toure made a bow toward the West...