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...unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house, and had published half a shelf of books. He had won five literary prizes . . . Still, he called himself an exile. He said he didn't belong -- he looked it in his winter coat. Seeing me, he frowned with satisfaction...
...registration, you'll receive a coupon book that will get you into most Harvard sporting events for free and will get you discounts for the really big events like The Game or the hockey playoffs. Most of the time, all you'll need is a coupon and a coat for that windy jaunt across the Charles River...
...abortion as something like divorce -- an anguishing decision but not a crime. Pro-life forces want to convince them that abortion is more like murder -- one of those acts that cannot be sanctioned as a choice. As each side flourishes its arguments and passions, its pictures of fetuses and coat hangers, the conscience too can feel set on a collision course with itself...
Despite his success in Washington, Koop's real calling is medicine. By the time he was five, he knew he wanted to be a doctor like his uncle. At 15, he ! would take the subway on weekends from Brooklyn to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, pinch a white lab coat, and take a seat in the balcony of the operating room, transfixed for hours by amputations and appendectomies. Back home, while his father was at the office, he would persuade his mother to help her precocious only child round up stray cats and dump them into a sterile trash...
...Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that...