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...right to cut off the respirator that keeps Karen alive. Last week the Quinlans filed their first written arguments in what will probably be a long appeals process. Even as they were doing so, the case took a bizarre twist. New Jersey officials summoned William Dixon Zywot, 22, a companion of Karen's in the months before she became comatose, to appear before a grand jury. They wanted to question him about an egg-sized bump on the head, as well as a series of bruises on her body, that Karen received shortly before she was hospitalized last April...
...tattered but vital hospice for the poor, St. Joseph's House, just off Manhattan's Bowery. Today 47 urban "houses of hospitality," inspired by the one she founded in New York, provide hot meals, and sometimes shelter, for the down-and-out. Some are tied to companion farms in the country in keeping with the back-to-the-land ideas of Co-Founder Peter Maurin...
Some titles are harder to live up to than others. Take Prince Charles, who last week received the right to list himself as a Companion Rat in the Grand Order of Water Rats, a venerable fraternity of comedians whose peers include Danny Kaye, Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers. After his investiture, the Royal Rat fell in with the tone of the organization by noting that next year he will assume command of a Royal Navy minesweeper. "Let me say," he warned, "that if any of you here today are considering sailing in the North...
...each stop. You point out that if you stayed the fortnight you would wish in Country A, you couldn't go on to B and C, and how long has it been, by the way, since your new Brazilian friend was in Chile, or your Peruvian lunch companion in Argentina? A long time, it usually turns out, and sometimes never. This conversation, all the way around the continent, serves as a steady reminder that South America still is more of an entity on the map than in the minds of the South Americans...
...Most of the climbers on the expedition had already lost a companion in a climbing accident," Lester added...