Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors say most in-flight discomfort is really dehydration, so drink water while flying...
Stone plays Charles with some discomfort. Charles is a stock character, a young vagabond whose ignorance makes him vacillate between over-confident threatening statements to pathetic acts of (sincere?) sorrow. I do not know if it is with the acting or the directing, but Charles needs to be slimier. He is a con man who is trying to get money out of John while feigning gay companionship. While Stone utilizes his Pudding past and tries to play up the effeminacy of his gay character, it is not made certain until Charles threatens to leave John if he does not swindle...
...organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while awaiting the initial transplant...
...division in the Clinton Administration early in 1993. The characterization of her work as "profoundly anti-democratic" and of Guinier herself as a "Quota Queen" by the press, which led eventually to the President's withdrawl of her nomination, can itself be read as a signal of a "national discomfort with the brute facts of racial injustice." At least, this is the interpretation placed on last year's events both by Stephen L. Carter's foreword to the collection, and by Guinier's specially written introduction. Framed in this way, the book becomes a forum for the public hearing...
...Michigan jury unanimously acquitted Dr. Jack Kevorkian of a criminal charge under a state law prohibiting anyone from assisting in suicides. The jury decided that Kevorkian, who helped a terminally ill man kill himself in 1993, acted only to ease the man's pain and discomfort and not necessarily to end his life, an exception that the law permits. A day later, a federal judge in Seattle struck down a 140-year-old Washington state law against assisted suicide...