Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head of Maryland General Hospital's division of neurology, told Cole. But Jackie did not die right away; after several crises she stabilized into a vegetative state, which doctors said could last indefinitely. After talking with his children, Cole went to court to remove the respirator. But Baltimore Circuit Court Judge John Carroll Byrnes stayed his decision. Six days later, Jackie Cole woke...
Today Jackie and Harry still appear on the talk-show circuit. She suffers some short-term memory loss, but otherwise is fully recovered. "When I look back at what the doctors said, I think, 'How wrong they were,' " she says. "What happened to me was truly miraculous." She does not blame Harry for wanting to pull the plug. "I know he loves me. I know he was never trying to do away with me." But the story does highlight the dilemma both judges and family members face. "I thought my decision was well planned, well thought out, responsible," says Cole...
...heeled ladies who lunch. But to endure on the job, a gossipmonger must also be a tireless attender of parties. Syndicated columnist Karen Feld, who writes from Washington, attends six to eight events a night and dowses for dirt on the tennis court, at teas and on the embassy circuit. Says Feld: "I do think columnists like me can make or break people...
...University's decision started to look more reasonable this week, as a federal judge rejected Merrill Lynch's first attempt to short-circuit the case...
Currently clerking for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Brewer will join the Harvard faculty in 1991 after working as a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court this summer...