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Henri Cole, Briggs-Copeland lecturer in poetry, is the professor of two creative writing classes, English Cpr and English Cqr. Cole, a former director of the Academy of American Poets, taught at Reed, Columbia and Yale before coming to Harvard in 1994. He was recently awarded the Prix de Rome for 1995, and will spend the next academic year at the American Academy in Rome before returning to Harvard in the fall of 1996. His third book of poems,The Look of Thing, was published by Knopf in January...
Believing that his knowledge of CPR and first-aid would allow him to contribute to the rescue effort, Kluttz headed for Logan International Airport...
...COMMONSENSE OUTRAGE: To swipe at oppressive government regulations, Gingrich produced a first-aid heart pump. "What I want the American people to understand," he said, is that this pump that was "invented in Denmark increases by 54% the number of people with CPR who get to the hospital with a chance to recover. The Food and Drug Administration makes illegal ((a product)) that minimizes brain damage, increases the speed of recovery and saves money." Using this pump is just "common sense," Gingrich insisted, implying that the FDA's intransigence costs lives...
...police affidavits report, John had beaten her on the body and face as her mother watched. John later added that Pauline joined in the beating. When Christina started screaming, he stopped her mouth with a towel. When she choked and went into seizures, he says, he tried to perform CPR, unsuccessfully. The couple kept her corpse in a closet for four days. Last Friday, just 17 hours after South Carolina police shocked the nation with the announcement that they were taking Susan Smith in for murdering her children, Pauline Zile, like her husband, was also charged with murder...
HEALTH CARE: Senate Finance Committee chairman Pat Moynihan last week launched a final bid to pass an incremental health-reform bill. But most lawmakers pitied the New York Democrat for trying CPR on a corpse. Even so temperate a Republican as Richard Lugar of Indiana observed that among his constituents, "people have become so afraid of what health-care reform might do to them that they're relieved nothing is getting through this year...