Word: doctor
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University officials and dozens of alumni gathered Saturday at the Kennedy School of Government to dedicate a scholarship in memory of slain doctor and author Michael Halberstam...
...Connecticut took five or six days of steady plodding, he recalls. And so, when it turned out the West Point physical was to be held in Boston, Kelleher walked in from Lawrence, a trek of about 30 miles. When he got there, he says, the first thing the doctor looked at was his feet, only to discover that Kelleher had low arches. "He told me that there was a lot of marching at West Point, and that I wouldn't be able to do it with feet like mine," Kelleher says. "So I told him I had just walked...
...Hanover's beauty, impressed by the huge library, impressed perhaps most of all by the quiet, "almost cloistered," atmosphere. "I went back and told my parents, and they decided that one way or another they would get me there." With the help of an uncle who was a doctor, Kelleher was able to enter the school in the fall of 1935. The atmosphere was still pleasant, but somehow it wasn't as placid as he remembered: his visit, it turned out, had fallen on the weekend that all of the college was in New Haven for the Yale game...
...view of one longtime Helms watcher in Raleigh, the son does not entirely erase the sins of the father "Jesse adopted a handicapped son," says the man. "It cost him a lot of doctor's bills. He'd give the coat off his back to help someone lying in the street, but he's not going to vote for food stamps." Indeed, during his first Senate term, Helms voted against funds for the handicapped...
...translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book at first drew little attention. Then, last May, readers began to interpret the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in Rome as a fulfillment of Nostradamus' prophecy that a Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which...