Word: excerpted
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...Dining with Kim Jong Il A verbatim item quoted an excerpt from Chris Patten's new book in which he recounted a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il [Oct. 17]. Patten, former Hong Kong Governor and European Union Commissioner for External Affairs, wrote, "We banqueted with Kim and a group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." It is unfair to criticize Kim for indulging in excesses while the poor of his country starved since, with the exception...
...excerpt from Dr. Andrew Weil's book Healthy Aging was well presented [Oct. 17]. Weil gave a balanced view of nutritional advice on aging, and I was glad to see someone point out the dubious nature of the antiaging business. Most of what we spend on vitamin supplements and health food represents unreasonable expectations of our ability to control aging. Such purchases only distract from what is truly important: taking the steps necessary to delay age-related disease. I will read Weil's entire book and recommend this article to my patients. JOHN KAUFMANN, M.D. Boca Raton...
...people charged with killing Jews. Wiesenthal, who was himself imprisoned in several concentration camps, became the conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...
...rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...
...Milestone of actor Bob Denver noted [Sept. 19], he played the role of Gilligan in the popular 1960s TV comedy Gilligan's Island. Ten years ago, we profiled the creator of the show, Sherwood Schwartz, in a piece called "The Inventor of Bad TV." Here's an excerpt from that story [March...