Word: confidante
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The reaction is another indication of how the sudden mellowing of the East German state and the crumbling of the Wall have taken the West by surprise. The West German government has done little or no planning to absorb the refugees: it has left the task of resettlement to states...
UNFORTUNATELY, there is no way to know how much of his account is factual. Golenbock swears he taped all of his conversations, but refuses to release the tapes in order to protect his unnamed sources. The one source he does name, team manager and Valvano confidant John Simonds, had his...
-- "Once most people treated me as a friend and a confidant," recalls Boyd McCracken Sr., 65, a family practitioner from Greenville, Ill. (pop. 5,000), who remembers making late-night house calls. "These days the malpractice threat has created a definite wedge between a physician and some of his patients...
I find the Crimson's reporting in this matter both mind-boggling and insulting. To suggest that I would reverse, on the basis of a poll, a position which I had spent seven months researching and debating before deciding to support, is ridiculous. In contrast to the four positions on...
The 246-page narrative moves slowly through 21 years of stutterer Jeremy Zorn's life. There is a rough chronology, but more free association, as one would find in a psychiatric session. Narrated in the first person, the book reads like a record of therapy. Jeremy's speech therapist Sandra...